10/05/2008 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Scorpiano

Samir over at View from Fez says that around 100 kids die annually from scorpion bites in Morocco. They’re quite common in Spain too. Here’s one in the gardens of Can Ferrero in Barcelona’s Zona Franca district that scared the hell out of me:

Ship bringing water from Tarragona wrecked in torrential rain off Barcelona

I don’t have time to read this story right now, but that’s what people tell me’s going on.

Open source Barcelona street map

Quite a lot of the Barcelona mapping at OpenStreetMap.org is already more detailed and reliable than some commercial products I’ve seen, although I briefly thought Plaça dels Angels had been mapped by skaters. Whatever happened to the UPC Barcelona mapping party?

Ethnic prejudices confirmed

L helped a cause. L joined FACEBOOK EN CATALÀ! 6,121 members – $0 raised People, get your wallets out.

Elizabeth I in the pay of Spain all along

Watching Helen Mirren last night. Quoth the people of Spain: Elizabeth -> Bess not Beth because it was given her by her Andalusian seseo-masters. And one was snoring too hard to disagree.