May 2012 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Tribute to Vidal Sassoon

Vidal “Bob” Sassoon has kicked his bucket His heaters lie forlorn upon the floor The king of Mayfair perms will mould no more And maidens weep from here to distant Phuket. He never cut no hair in grey Nantucket Those frozen coasts he found a dreadful snore Old Martha’s vineyard was a filthy chore So…

Hot news from the executors of Messrs Sapir & Whorf

ÎºÏÎ¯ÏƒÎ¹Ï‚? It’s their fault for neologising.

A brief history of zoological shame

Featuring a Spanish view of the Saxons.

A curious vertical axis wind turbine in 16th century La Mancha

But how did it work?

Crisis, what crisis?

Rodolfo de Angelis’ great 1930s hit explains how to get ourselves out of the mess we’ve got ourselves into.

Artur Mas: only the filthy Spanish are stopping every Catalan owning a farm right now

In a number of posts (see below) I’ve suggested that rather than use cheap, crap human translators customers should consider free, often-not-so-crap machine translation, so it was only a matter of time before someone called my bluff. Tom has sent over a lovely piece from Ara re the use by the Catalan regional government of…

Month: May 2012