2009 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Bottled in origin/Embotellado en orígen

A Spanish wine company is struggling with machinery and branding.

Workers who don’t, unemployed who ain’t

A fragment from the story of how Andalusia got where it wouldn’t necessarily want to be, given a modicum of thought.

The cycling Cartesian

If you haven’t got a head, you’re going to need some legs.

1485, and how to beat it

Use spam calls from Telefónica as a free sex chat service and they may leave you alone.

Check out veteran socialist moderate Joaquín Leguina on the silence from both major parties re the abuse of judicial power when it suits their ends. And Ignacio Escolar has some interesting PP quotes from the last century. And UPyD says it can be fixed with legal and constitutional reform.

Blanes-Ma?

Renfe’s public information system at plaza Cataluña station can’t cope with the cedilla in Maçanet.

German colleagues

Übersetzungsfehler deals with a variety of language combinations and is altogether more sober than this site. As is frequently the case on German websites, the legal notice deserves a trophy of some kind.

David Icke-like view of the relationship between pigeons and statues

Statues are designed to be bird-friendly on the orders of a mysterious avian deity, which may have held sway over Luis Buñuel.

Spanish woman academic dresses according to stereotype

From an off-the-record report of a departmental seminar somewhere in the UK.

Year: 2009