Oh kcuf off!

Tomma Abts, 38, born in Germany but resident in London, is an abstract painter whose work always measures 48 x 38 centimetres.

Weirdest contact ad ever

Don’t let your sis near this one: 1……….2……………..3……………4……………5……..6……. go!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yes yes yes is only airplane but is more interesting ¡like this!.oooooh yeaaah (It may of course just be Rodrigo Nieto’s favourite horse.)

Plagues

Christopher Hitchens says of Muhammad, “Of course, he’s not a prophet… He’s an epileptic plagiarist.” The original is Jonathan Miller’s “bubonic plagiarist”, which is funny.

Wardrobe door

I figure I’m going to get a load of these and knock down all the walls.

Organ muse

The Philadelphia Orchestra’s new organ sounds wonderful: It has 6,938 pipes, ranging from pencil-size to more than 40 feet, deployed in 125 ranks. In a demonstration and performance for the press, Jeffrey Brillhart, an organist from Bryn Mawr, Pa., coaxed out a high, thin, almost inaudible piping that was seemingly adrift in the hall (like…

Un matinet en mai

It would be rather nice for someone I know if there were a translation into one of the Romance dialects of Under der linden, but I don’t think there is, and I’m not that far. People probably weren’t as sensitive to lime pollen back then. (I do like Craig E Bertolet’s jealous husband translation, although…

Werner Georg Patel

I told you that was his name. (I fear some people are taking the site seriously, although Big Fat Hairy Dave probably isn’t among them–check his profile.)

Reading this evening…

Flemish jurisprudence dealing with relationships between potato coops and their tax-mitigating members. One new expression: tegensprekelijk debat, from the French débat contradictoire of réunion contradictoire, meaning basically (and slightly bizarrely to my mind) a meeting or hearing at which several or all parties are present. Due to some aspect of legal history with which I…

Cow

There are times when I, too, feel hairachy. (If GenCat.net really “is an example of a radical redefinition of the e-Government portal concept, the first real implementation of Web 2.0 philosophy in Public Administration, fully backed by an explicit policy-driven political strategy focused on a personalized and integrated citizen-centric approach”, how come a centric citizen…