April 2011 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

The japanish writer Haruki Murakami awarded with the 23th Premi Internacional Catalunya

We’re talking the front page of the website of a Catalan government whose words consist of endless recycling of the cliché about taking its rightful place among the family of nations (its deeds are something different), which spends millions employing friends and relatives in “embassies” around the world, and which has just given a celebrated…

The Babel fish and the existence of God revisited

Does St Salvator of Horta’s geo-sensitive (Catalan-Basque) miracle cure for a deaf-mute girl open a logical loophole in Godless Adams’ argument?

Barcelona independence referendum?

Yawn.

Free English-language Iberian climate atlas

Authored by the Spanish and Portuguese state meteorology services, an 80-page PDF with a good range of temperature and precipitation data for the Iberian peninsular from 1971 to 2000 is downloadable here. This is a most welcome initiative at a time when national budgets are under severe pressure and Spain is additionally beset by regionalism…

The Hispanic Orthography Files, continued

Plus a zarzuela/politics RFI.

Teatro Apolo in Barcelona, ca 1910, advertising the zarzuela Bohemios by <a href='http://www.zarzuela.net/ref/reviews/amadeu11_eng.htm'>Amadeu Vives</a>. CC from <a href=

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Montserrat -> Monsterrat

Catalonia’s Holy Mountain becomes a giant rodent in the day-by-day fold-out menus at a competitor, Explore Catalunya. (H/t Shazza.) (Comment spam: commenting is a legitimate means of self-promotion, but if on balance your comment appears to have more relevance to whatever services you provide than to the post in question then it will be deleted.)

100+ tabs mean Firefox session restore from backup doesn’t work

But there’s still a way of rescuing all that crap you’ve accumulated.

Umbach print of you - yes YOU - from the <a href='http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1504121&partid=1&searchText=diogenes&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&titleSubject=on&physicalAttribute=on&numpages=10&images=on&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=1'>British Museum</a>

“Amaral pide que el estadio sea una hoya a presión”

Eggcorn or homophonic synonym? If the latter, then Amaral is probably plotting to eject his opponents into outer space.

The doggone girl is mine

Village Virgin wars.

For sale, the church of St Paul at Montmany

Buy the scene of the miserable fate of the rector in Els sots feréstecs!