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Tom Coates has ‘shopped that top-10 spam meme, Unrelenting C*cks Destroy Innocent Pussies.
The Peckham chapter of the Taliban and a horde of Yorkshire lesbians are going to be fighting it out here for the next few days so , to remind you of how good life was before Reagan, is Radio Tirana’s old call sign. When I first found its excellent signal on the short wave in…
Sorry, but anyone tell me whether the following William Dunbar quote refers to the long battle by Dorset priests to rid their churches of scrumpy ‘n’ western, to yet another destruction of Leicester City FC’s charity team, or to skirmishes between farmers and those legendary mint tea-crazed monsters? Done is a battell on the dragon…
Ben Berg: Kanjigate (v.). To write in kanji. Langmaker is a site for people who like creating new words and languages. Here’s the history of Chicken.
The elderly Galician in the seafood bar down the street is essentially a demand side economist. Octopus? No problem. Customers? Never been worse. Although he doesn’t know why, he’s basically right about the first bit. Here’s a snapshot of why that is: The Moroccan catch fell from 107,000 tonnes in 2000 through 96,000 in 2001…
I assume someone else will comment on the Laporta-Pujol double act at the Barça match (1-2 at home to Real) last night: the young club president who, despite an appalling week, still believes he can win it all, and the weary old politician who has just seen his successor shut out of the new regional…
Van de (geweldige) Vlaamse Volksverhalenbank: Een man uit Diets-Heur ging langs de weg naar Vreren naar het station. Onderweg moest hij voorbij een slagboom waarop een zwarte kat zat. De man durfde niet verder te gaan omdat hij vermoedde dat de kat een heks was. Ik zou uren aan deze site kunnen besteden, ware het…
The excellent Mr Pullum highlights the attempts of the Plain English Conspiracy to destroy Donald Rumsfeld. There is, of course, nothing wrong with the example for which they awarded Ronald (as La Vanguardia’s Asian correspondent calls him) their Foot in Mouth trophy; indeed, a glance at their list of previous winners suggests that they have…
A couple of profs up north have just published a book, Manual de Redacción Ciberperiodística, that explains useful things like … er … what a hyperlink is. Books like this have been remaindered for years in other countries, so how come lecturers here still get away with inflicting them on their students? Any currently blog-less…
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