From a BBC article re Channel 4’s reality TV show, Shattered: [O]n leaving the show, contestant Craig North said: “It was like torture being deprived of sleep. It’s not every day you try to spend 180 hours without any sleep.” I hereby accuse Mr North of a being a little green man from Pluto, where…
Just a warning that the site may be even more chaotic over the next couple of days. This is because I’ve taken a deep breath and decided to do stuff like kick out virtually all non-data tables in favour of CSS2-based layouts (= quicker site + more display/media options) and switch to UTF-8 (= more…
This is absolutely revolutionary: la Real Academia Española, the Spanish version of l’Académie Française, is going to include internet in its new dictionary. It was felt that such a move would have been premature when the previous revision was made in 2001.
You can do night-time walks in some places, but not round Torre Baró (blogged here, walk here). This week it was the turn of a part-time teacher of guitar and sevillanas, murdered next to his car and sleepy girlfriend with a 9 mm Civil War pistol for reasons presumably unrelated to his left-hand technique. Honestly,…
… by Mohammed VI of Morocco is the Maghrebi story making the international headlines today, Reporters Without Borders even going to the ridiculous lengths of expressing gratitude to the king for freeing someone who shouldn’t have been banged up in the first place. What most of the papers miss is that – apart from the…
La notícia en la International Herald Tribune (via Prandial Post) de que el FBI estigui buscant a gent equipada d’almanacs no ha de sorprendre’ns: segons William B Breuer en The Spy Who Spent the War in Bed And Other Bizarre Tales from World War II, els espies nazis als EUA utilitzaven fonts similars per a…