03/07/2006 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Another sacred language, persecuted

If you thought Jordi Bilbeny was a big smoker, try Daniel Cassidy’s paranoia-fueled inventions. (Via The Lexicographer’s Rules)

Felix Schlayer and the Nazis

Few here are both able and willing to read any language but their own, so there has been a sudden burst of excitement concerning the translation into Spanish of the memoirs of Felix Schlayer. Schlayer was a Swabian engineer and the inventor of the Heliaks (PDF, $$$), a helicoaxial threshing machine. He was also Norway’s…