Kaleboel – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Stay in a hotel whose previous owners were beaten to death and buried in the garden

This is surely where this took place, and this must have been one of the last guests pre-mortem. I liked the unconsciously gruesome comments on TripAdvisor about the chilly welcome and subsidence on the tennis court, and a couple of the photos are thoroughly spooky. This and more on FollowTheBaldie.com‘s customised hiking tours.

Otra Liga es posible

An Iberian proposal would slash wage costs, free up time and talent for cashflow-friendly shagshow opportunities, and assimilate football to mainstream Peninsular cultural practice.

Kalebeul, voice of the voiceless

Restores the power of speech to stricken Andalusians.

Administrative note

I’m going to shift all the crap on this server to a new host tomorrow evening–cheaper, I believe more reliable, and it’s in the States so I can say whatever I want. One query: I have vague memories from when I left the disastrous WebFusion/Host Europe setup a couple of years ago that WordPress times-out…

Tour guide learns routes from Google Streetview

Here‘s a cheeky hybrid of actual and virtual tourism: the guide hasn’t been to all of the places advertised here at 100€ per person per day, and he hasn’t visited some for a decade, so instead of conducting costly research he learns them from Google Streetview. Which, for all I know, may work perfectly well…

Why less democracy is better for Europe

Peter Mandelson on how fortunate we are that the European Commission is unelected, remote, unaccountable, and a major bureaucracy.

Bloody Galicians

But what was Rosa Díez actually trying to say before she so expertly inserted foot into mouth?

Born, not made

The Spanish, making progress with a backlog of untranslated English snowclones?

Blogger closed down my favourite copyright violation site!

Hasta luego Edgar León, but what’s the real solution?

Few Venezuelan sailors do not know las Tetas de María Guevara. Photo <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License'>GNU</a> by <a href='http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Wilfredor'>Wilfredo Rodríguez</a>

The right and the wrong type of snow, according to Avicenna, Aristotle and Plutarch

With an excerpt from a plea for more state funding by the Bostonian Western Rail-road, in which we are given to understand that snow is not necessarily a bad thing.