Des von Bladet links to the story of Anna and Ulf Ström, who have cycled all the way from sunny Sweden to snappy Spain and say that poor Spanish road-planning has sometimes forced them to cycle on motorways. Contractors are actually obliged to build service roads along at least one side of motorways if there…
Giving stuff away to illegals as a commercial gimmick is a terrible thing to do. When I meet illegals crossing from France, I ask them whether they’ve got cash and want to go to a bar, and if the answer’s no I push them into a ravine. It’s the capitalist way, and they’ve got to…
Litus posted a little mood piece a year ago on his blog. Antoni Ibàñez / TdQ, “writer”, who’s on Litus blogroll, copied it, published it in a book, and went round reciting it and telling the world how happy he was with his prize (everyone gets prizes here). The fragment has disappeared from his site…
Mouse Hunter has another useful neologism: tun, as in “stay tunned”. It refers to the large casks used to hold beverages and is the alcoholic sibling of “stay cool”. (I don’t know what getting tunned is like in Tunisia, but the last time I tried it that side of the water I didn’t get any…
I was going on the other day about Meteoclimatic. Well here’s another good resource: a climate atlas of the Iberian peninsula. The cartographers at the UAB’s Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications have already got a global land cover, elevation and political boundary project up and running, and a fish and coastal base and…
David Luna, Dawn Lerman, and Laura A Peracchio sound like they’ve started something interesting in Structural Constraints in Codeswitched Advertising (via Scribal Terror). This approach, and the relaxed and integrationist attitude of the Brazilian goverment towards { Portuguese + Spanish = Portuñol}, seem more constructive than calling Spanglish “a hybrid and ugly-sounding monster” or persecuting…