In a world of staggeringly incompetent amateurs the website of Textiles Athenea is just run-of-the-mill hound-dog, so I wouldn’t even mention it if someone hadn’t wept an empathic tear at a job ad of theirs that came flashing past. Hmm, to be the sparkling hub of their textile pattern design, collection formation and trend spotting…
For each tag you will get one of a one-sentence intro + link if it’s in Wikipedia and if it may confuse an average reader (eg “web cache”); just a link if the concept is available on WP but too simple to bother with (eg “cache”); nothing if there’s no corresponding WP entry (eg “reservatory”).…
Chez Lexicool, via MM, Katia, who, using Facebook in English, described herself as being in a civil union with Juan, only to have a lucky escape from her mother-in-law, who, using Facebook in Spanish, had understood that this was in some sense a homosexual union, and was just about to order some educational literature from…
A Tàpies bar on Paralelo for overfunded New Worlders, to play on any guilt they may feel for having absolutely ignored the silly old bugger for the last 50 years.
“Solo el Principado de Asturias, la Comunidad de Madrid, Cantabria, Galicia, Aragón y Cataluña están por encima de la media española.” Afaik 90% of what they do is sift through El País, rephrase and add spin, but ffs. And it’s curious: whatever decline may have taken place, I thought Greece and Spain were still world-leaders…
From Don Colin and the Xunta de Galicia, some gruesome translation with the splendid tagline “Flavour Routes, chack them out!”: “Check them out” would be far too unenterprising for a region whose private-sector, while Catalonia was spending €150M of public money trying to turn Barcelona Airport into a global hub, quietly forged a privileged relationship…
Over at treneando, via Xabier Cabezón. From press reports you might believe that the entire island administration is composed of thieves, but there are idiots as well. Other historic Spanish train news: the Friends of the Basque Railway Museum have been expelled from the foundation responsible for the project for suggesting that the new director…
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