For sale: TheBaldie.com

Just received an update reminder for thebaldie.com. Taking offers from baldie.com (not work-safe) and other hairless freaks via the usual channel. If no one wants it, I’ll probably renew it anyway, just so you don’t think baldies come cheap…

Online Catalan-English dictionary

Diccionaris.net is an initiative of Catalan translator Macià Falgàs. Although there’s a lot missing, there’s also a lot in there. It would be interesting to know how he’s compiling it–I think an off-the-cuff estimate for a normal dictionary would be something in the order of 50 person-years.

Happiness…

… is an extremely drunken Russian musician careering down a street mounted cowboy style on a wheeled drafting plotter. Fortunately no one was killed.

Censorship

Yet more from Isaac D’Israeli’s Curiosities of Literature, this time in celebration of Catalonia’s nationalist-socialist government’s attempts to reintroduce press censorship by the back door, the stick whose complementary carrot consists of liberal sums paid to anyone who prints favourable opinions (I’m on the CIA’s payroll): A curious literary anecdote has reached us of the…