Wikipedia: Arabic vs Klingon

“the number of interested people in having an Open Content Arabic Encyclopedia doesn’t reflect the number of Arabic people over the Internet”

Chickpoint

I always liked the bit in Qathafi’s Green Book where it says, “It is an undisputed fact that both man and woman are human beings.” This photo over at Ammar Ibrahim’s suggests that the latter may be only partially acknowledged in Syria – or it may just be their spelling. “Hier is the factory” is…

Exclusive Tunisian tornado pics

Karim’s got photos, more photos, even more photos and video of the Tunisian tornado and storms 10 days ago. I challenge you to find that on Google News.

Revenge of the Spanglish

“We put with the low ones when to a leñero and small player of stature we called dwarf to him. And with that they have the great ears when a soccer player of ample earpieces puts a goal to us and we called orejudos to them. ” More here.

Multiple identity

“I’m French, I feel Basque and Navarran, and people say I’ve got a Labortano mentality,” says Andrés Diharassarry Organbide, mayor and native of Urdax in Spain and ex-councillor over the border. The stress doesn’t look like it’s getting to him.

An in-law you can’t refuse

Everyone and our auntie is reporting on the popularity of the new mafia studies course in Rome. Any suggestions as to which will be the first Spanish university to offer a degree in enchufismo?

That midriff glow

Terminus Café next to Barbastro bus station is said to have closed before any of its few clients managed to implement the sign’s suggestion. Barbastro was the birthplace of the founder of Opus Dei, so it was always going to be tough.

Word hunt

Bitneriáceo is an excellent puzzle blog. This looks easy, but I’m still foxed.