Wales/Spain

“I’d never f**king heard ‘Y Viva Espana’,” says Geraint Watkins.

We’ve been wikipediad!

OK, it’s not the same as being instapunditted or slashdotted, but the link from here to here is still good for a few hits.

Sermon on the nount

More uses for a scissors than distinguished Viennese-Albertan dialect experts think.

Niceties

From the Washington Post: “Asked to respond to reports that Arafat is brain-dead, [French foreign minister Michel] Barnier replied, ‘I wouldn’t say that.'”

Blood and fire

Translation of the farewell poem recovered from the murderer of Theo van Gogh.

It’s those bl00dy Anglophones again!

“Some parliamentarians have also argued that the use of English can be confusing and that it may not be immediately clear whether Swissmint manufactures coins or sweets.”

When is a telemarketer a stalker?

Just received six calls from Gas Natural‘s telemarketing department, the first cold and the rest increasingly warm. Basically, the woman refused to accept that I was not interested in the Christmas special offer and kept calling back. If there’s no law against this, then there should be soon, because it seems to be regarded as…

Schrödinger’s Arafat

This seemed to me an interesting view of the media-meets-multiple-state-man scenario we’re now in: In the Everett many-worlds interpretation, which does not single out observation as a special process, both states persist, but decohere. When an observer opens the box, he becomes entangled with the cat, so observer-states corresponding to the cat being alive and…