Movable Type to WordPress

There’s a guide here. Looks pretty clunky to me and dynamic generation of pages just shunts the MT rebuild issue down the row. Textpattern looks interesting in a hippy kind of way, but I may have to start sending postcards again…

Social netrics

Kaleboel figures for insignificant reasons in an academic paper by Fernando Tricas-García and Juan Julián Merelo-Guervós. The Spanish-speaking Blogosphere: Towards the Powerlaw? (PDF) introduces a spider-based tool developed by the authors, the Blogómetro, and includes the following interesting comment: We have the feeling that Spanish bloggers do not link so often and frequently as they…

Subservient chicken

Yet another triumph for capitalism: try out show me your ass and spit at me on Burger King’s Subservient Chicken. Via Language Log.

Pain-to-pain

WiFi-SM (via wondering) sounds good: I’ve been using WiFi-SM for one month and it’s amazing ! When somebody suffers on earth, not only I know it, but I can also feel a little bit of his/her pain. I don’t feel guilty anymore and I can enjoy life without limitation. I love WiFi-SM ;-) Here’s the…

tunisian textiles

This is the kind of news that must break the hearts of the beards who want to establish little, backward Islamic fiefdoms: Tunisian textile exports to Spain have more than doubled in the last three years. Major Spanish players like Zara, El Corte Inglés, Pull and Bear and Mango are already operating in Tunisia and…

seguing lady jessica

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Survey shows that either 20.2 or 5.5% of Spaniards don’t know what email is

The headline figure this morning is 20%, but the survey (.doc) asks the question twice and the other answer is different. First there’s question 3: I’m going to read you a list of apparatus and new technologies that are being used more and more frequently in Spain. Tell me, please, of each one whether you…

spamart

This stuff should be subsidised, not banned, although I can’t work out whether the machines used to produce it are translators or generators. Here’s something I received this morning (URL omitted): Our soft pensil makes sound. Our noisy round eraser is thinking and our children beautiful spoon arrives. A golden glasses smells at the place…

shatnes

As a second-class Anglo-Saxon, I would have immediately and incorrectly assumed that the use of the word shatnes in connection with wool and linen referred to the increase in hygiene and decrease in mortality that resulted from making undergarments from the latter rather than the former (PDF). Via LanguageHat.