hearts that know no other land

Max Weber is apparently alive, well, and recycling his thoughts on social stratification as differentiated market pitches for Ming Pao:...

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rfid

Dean Takahashi has a lovely little piece on Charles Walton, the man ultimately behind the technology being used at Baja Beach Club here in Barcelona to bill drinks wirelessly. Radio frequency identification (RFID) initially lost out to the barcode and...
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showbiz news

Qov, who has just commented an old post, appeared in the documentary called Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water and writes a blog, bo logh, in Klingon, which is most admirable. (Are there more blogs in Klingon than Welsh?)Anyone got...
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"the ussr saved europe from fascism"

Stalin apologist Rafael Poch has published an article in La Vanguardia which belittles, falsifies, misrepresents the Normandy landings. That's a common line here, where quite large numbers of people still believe that Stalin (substitute Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, Companys etc...
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turtles and festivals of peace

Barcelona's Forum will resort to anything now to get anyone, anywhere to take an interest, so yesterday a bunch of children who are being held for commercial purposes by the organisation were made to release two sea turtles into the...
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more rubbish

Er, not quite
A secessionist in Morocco
Shameless plug
Ghit, glossarised
Ah! an adjective!
Teaching the world to sing in pure cacophony
Another crap restaurant
Catalonia Today: light, bland, should do fine
Hairy-tongued holies
Blog and get paid
Running, a universal language
"Envious MP dynamited pig farm latrine"
What's he on?
Brewery produces BSE-resistant cow
Crown of Aragon ready reckoner

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Mark Liberman (Language Log): It's a treat · Quaderns: Un fenomenal poti poti · Marc Torras: A series of totally subjective themes, of no interest except to the author

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