Les bourgeois – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Coño, the Spanish eureka

I’d never thought of it in that way, unlike Canal Rancio in comments over at Javier Caraballo.

Too bad CAD-ware isn’t fitted with spellcheckers

Bicycle sticker in the port: “Computer Asisted Design by European Engineer Group for Riamo Bikes”. Were computers really involved? Do either of these entities actually exist?

Hannibal TV

Tunisia’s first private TV company doesn’t seem to have any elephants. (Via Karim)

My first website

Made at least ten years ago & discovered in some junk.

Anti-Americanism and self-censorship in the German media

It would be interesting to run a similar study here to this one by Ray D. Many Spanish journalists and even more columnists accept the old socialist-fascist consensus that the US and its friends deserve all that can be thrown and flown at them, but many others are often unaccountably silent.

Why Spanish imperialism failed

The Spanish didn’t realise the importance of enforcing pidgins and creoles, says noted scholar, Cornelius DuBois, over at Speculative Grammarian.

One to offend the Christians

This is absolutely disgraceful.

Ethiopia and Jamaica to declare war on Georgia (USA)?

After Borat it’s hard to see diplomats taking Haile the robot drummer lying down, as it were.

Blindfolded man cycling into path of mechanical digger

Apparently not, but I don’t like it one bit.

Antwerp talk

Check out Godzjumenas’ Antwerp dialect or language or whatever blog, Aentwaereps. The spelling system is of his own invention and he writes occasionally on grammar, which, as he says, is currently undocumented–most writers claim it has none ;-) (I love Antwerp. The harbour has some of the finest mafia bars in Europe; lose your heart…