I thought this was rather special, especially when you consider all the one-note-samba rubbish still floating around: an early C20th recording (MP3) by El Canario Chico which concentrates a maximum of micro-variation within a minimal compass. More here on the Centro Andaluz de Flamenco site. A prior engagement with a tarantula means I’m not going…
I’m terribly sorry: I meant conservative in the sense of a nostalgia for things just past, which does, I think, make Habermas and Derrida conservatives. Mark Liberman, on the other hand, is nostalgic for times long past, for the Enlightenment–buckled shoes, open drains, and, quite possibly, beating well-loved columnists with clubs–which makes him not so…
From Kitten. There’s lots of good stuff coming out of the WordPress community, but not what quite a lot of people seem to have been requesting for a while: a functional multi-author system. At the moment WP trumpets its various user levels but no mention is made of the fact that same-level users can all…
Re Mark Liberman’s European Politics 101, I’d have thought that one would describe Derrida and Habermas as conservatives not because of any association with any particular dogma but because they both clearly long for times past. The 70s, let us not forget, were a period which combined rampant collectivism with reasonable sales for the writings…
No prize to the first person to figure out why Yves Rocher (France) might not be particularly thrilled that the following product of theirs was being sold in the Carrer Ferran Yves Rocher franchise: This is a gross over-simplification. There’s an interesting pharma-oriented summary here, and here‘s an article by a lawyer from a local…
A picture of Roy Horn, recovering from being mauled by a tiger, is giving rise to an ironic exchange of views here. My favourite comment is one I’ve been anticipating keenly for some time: god you whinging people annoy me. If you check the DNS of the “Americans” you’ll see that they actually come from…
Good to see that Mayor Clos has joined in with the Kaleboel rant against ripoffs in tourist zones. Not particularly surprising to see that sidekick Jordi Portabella (is he really a Danone heir?) has got his poor little mind mixed up again and thinks it’s all our fault for wanting free markets.