Berlintendenzen

This is the kind of site that drives me freaking crazy. Beat the people at Biografica.org and ElUltimoCafe.com with iron rods, deinstall Flash from their machines, and sentence them to 10 years hard labour doing stuff like, er, saying where and when the exhibition is. Jesus wept.

Postage stamp scam

Bitter tears from the greedy idiots who bought–or thought they’d bought–unregulated investments–stamps–in the expectation of becoming fabulously rich instantly. And a big hand for the media who, with unaccustomed taste and tact, are seeking to profit from any distress by setting up email, as opposed to stamp-on-envelope, help facilities.

Who’s plagiarising whom?

There are remarkable similarities between the styleguides of the Guardian and of the University of Kent. Check eg “a or an before h?”, “abbreviations”, “accents”.

Forward to the past

One does like the direction taken by the gaze being used to flag the referendum on whether individual rights were really such a good idea after all.

If you thought Spanish airport security was bad…

Viewed from Fez: “Apparently [Lebanese star] Haifa’s decision [to boycott Morocco] is due to what she thought was the mistreatment she faced during her recent visit to Morocco. Haifa claims she was searched in an inappropriate manner by a female security officer at the airport. When Haifa asked why she was being mistreated, the officer…

Velocity killed the vole

I’ve had the phrase in my head all afternoon and don’t know what to do with it. Ditto “savage, safe and sorted.”

Moving

If I were to go, it might be to here.