Caveat emptor, although in the case of the estate agents their general incompetence means it’s unlikely that you’ll manage to get anywhere near buying anything via them. Half these are personal choices and probably not of much use to anyone. Please tell me if any links or blogs are dead. If you want to promote a language school, a residential development or some such, then please don’t ask me to link-swap - there’s just too many of you, love you as I do. Kind of.
Perlentaucher: Feuilleton fun
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Amazon: goes straight to book search
Andy’s Early Comics Archive
Anglo-Norman texts
Apocalyptic links: Revelation etc
Aranese kiddies stories
Barcelona Review
Belphégor : Littérature Populaire et Culture Médiatique
Berkeley Dig Library: Medieval & classical online sources
Biblioteca virtual de rondalles mallorquines: Mallorcan folktales, Minorcan and Ibizan collection coming soon on same site
Bilingual edition of troubadour Peire Cardenal
Cervantes Virtual: interesting stuff - if you can find it
Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren
Digitale bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren: large collection of Dutch literature, from which the RAE could learn
El Ripollès dels trobadors
Electronic Text Center: University of Virginia
Followthebaldie book recommendations
Hispanomedievalismo: resource links
History of Spanish literature
How to get money for writing rubbish in Catalan
Karl-May-Gesellschaft
Llull resources
Medieval French Lyric Poetry
Oxford Text Archive
Project Gutenberg
Refranero mexicano
Spanish poetry
Street & Smith dime lit
Troubadour & Early Occitan Literature
University of Valencia online text links collection
Vie littéraire à l’époque de Villon: C15th
Wordtheque: database of multilingual novels, technical literature, translated texts
eHumanista
eScholarship: California Digital Library
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Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century
Andy Holt Virtual Library Early Music Periodicals
Apothecary’s Drawer: science/arts/occasional MIDIs
CGT songbook: Viva la FAI! Apparently
Furt
Hornmaker: “the art of making musical instruments at home for fun and self-defence”
Köttelpeer’n Bloazers
MIDI standard drum set
Peñas flamencas
Pianographique
Polifònica Industrial
Silophone: sonic inhabitation of Silo # 5
Stroat Ensemble
Trans: “Revista Transcultural de Música”
Transport sounds: sounds of British tube trains etc, recorded by Richard
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Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century
Alianza entre Mamones
Almendrón
Apothecary’s Drawer: science/arts/occasional MIDIs
BILDblog
Barcelonetes
Barcepundit
Bieslog
Blogpocket
Boing Boing
Cançoner de la Lola
Cines Méliès
Ciutadans de Catalunya
Daily Rotten: weird stuff
Desbladet
Dr Weevil
Emm Beech in the land of the Danes
Enschede a/Zee
Eye of the goof
Filmoteca
Fum i estalzí
Gay Nazi Sex Vicar in Schoolgirl Vice Knickers Disco Lawnmower Shock
Giornale Nuovo
Iberian Notes
JA Millán
Jordi Orwell
Kottke
L’aeroplà del Raval
Langwich Sandwich
Liberalismo.org
Mariano Gistaín
Martí Saballs
MemeFirst
Memepool
Normblog
North Atlantic Skyline: west coast photos
Oliver Kamm
Oxblog
Pyrenean Notes
Quirky@BigBlog
Radicalmente Liberal
Sachs Report: links
Savage Minds
Slashdot
Sol72
Stefan Geens
Tecnología Obsoleta
Toda La Veritat: “Diario Renacentista de Castelldefels”
Web Frog: silly stories
Western Mediterranean news
Whatserface
Yotro
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LoQuo: Barcelona classifieds, kind of local Craigslist
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Casalmonte: Aragon
Fincas Afisa: OK, watch out for Flash rubbish
Fincas Besalú
Fincas Corral
Fincas Cos: interesting selection; won’t give information by email and paranoid about giving it over the phone
Fincas Exclusivas/Sotheby’s
Finques Camprodon
Idealista
L’Habitatge: Osona, formidably bad search
La Vanguardia
Món rústic: Tarragona; interesting selection, but no email, I’ve never managed to speak to them on the phone, and I discovered that two properties being offered by them in which I was interested were not actually for sale.
Rústicas del Noroeste: Madrid-based, properties in Catalonia
Real Stone Houses: Costa Brava
Rustic Bisbal: mostly Girona
TopRural
Tot Rustic: rural stuff up in Girona province, beware: don’t read email
Vivendum
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… during surgery
Head shaving in antiquity
Shaved by the Lord!
To shave or not to shave
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Guardian world newsguide
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Addis Tribune
Botswana Gazette
GhanaWeb
IOL
Mail & Guardian
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Andrew Sullivan
Boing Boing
Christian Science Monitor
Discordian Research Technology News
Dr Weevil
IHT
Memepool
NY Times
New Republic
New York Review of Books
New Yorker
Online Journalism Review
Village Voice
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China Economic Net
Daily Yomiuri
Haaretz
India Today
Korea Times
North Korean News Agency
Shanghai Star
Straits Times
Times of India
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Baltic Blog
Corriere della Sera
Desbladet
Eursoc: Eurosceptical
MemeFirst
Népszava
North Atlantic Skyline: west coast photos
Repubblica
Romania Libera
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Figaro
Humanité
L’Express
La Dépêche du Midi: Toulouse
La Provence
Le Monde
Libération
Monde Diplomatique
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BILDblog
FT Deutschland
Frankfurter Allgemeine
Süddeutsche
Spiegel
Welt
Zeit
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Bieslog
Fokke & Sukke
Frits Abrahams: worth learning Dutch for
NRC Handelsblad
Radio Nederland Wereldomroep
Telegraaf
Theo van Gogh
Twentsche Courant
Volkskrant
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ABC
Blogpocket
Cadena Ser
Ciberpunk
Cinco Días
Costa Blanca News: good weekly
EFE
Estrella
Euroresidentes: English summaries of main Spanish news stories
Expansión
Google Spain
Grupo RTVE: Mordor’s audiovisual tool
Iberia: natural history and environment: “Spain’s environment, geography, nature and climate”
La Razón
Liberalismo.org
Libertad Digital
Marca: sport
Mundo
Radio Nacional de España (RNE)
Radios Libres y Comunitarias de Madrid: link page for Madrilenian loony left radio
Sur in English
TVLocal.com: site about local telly throughout Spain
Topix: Google News classified with duplications cut out
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Diario de Mallorca
Majorca Daily Bulletin: Grupo Serra
Mallorca Zeitung
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20 minutos: freesheet.
3 de Vuit: Penedès weekly
Absurd Diari
Agència Catalana de Notícies
Avui: craven Catalanista daily, monstrously in debt
BCN[inside]: “Barcelona has banned bullfighting” says the summer ed, lots of other howlers in this glossy which, in a normal world, would get sued for squatting the http://www.barcelona-connect.com URL
Barcelona Connect: good classifieds, clunky site
Barcelona Metropolitan: glossy monthly
COMRàdio: state-owned (via Consorci de Comunicació Local) local radio provider
Catalonia Today: Tue-Sat, Catalanista-lite but in what they seem to think is English, website non-functional
Catalunya Ràdio: part of state-owned CCRTV
Col·legi de Periodistes de Catalunya: social club
Consell de l’Audiovisual de Catalunya (CAC): “independent” audiovisual regulator for Catalonia, occasionally withdraws ads
Consorci Local i Comarcal de Comunicació (CLCC): bizarre media agency, owned by local government, with the ostensible premise of telling Farmer A up in the mountains that Farmer B down on the plain has fallen off his donkey and hurt his leg; must be a subsidy fiddle
Corporació Catalana de Ràdio i Televisió (CCRTV): main weapon in Generalitat’s campaign to get us all to speak proper while distributing large amounts of public money between their family and friends
Diari de Barcelona: council propaganda
Diari de Girona: good local news, part of Grupo Moll
Diari de Tarragona
Dossier Econòmic: business weekly; terrible site with Flash, browser resizes and God knows what
E-noticies.com
El Racó Català: lies, damned lies and some very bad arithmetic
Europa Press
Indymuddled
IntraCatalonia.com
Localret: consortium consisting of local councils, development of telecom networks and new tech, probably subsidy-spinner
Metro: freesheet.
Observatori de la Comunicació Local (OCL): UAB local media studies group, good database
Periódico
Punt
Subdirecció General de Mitjans Audiovisuals: frequencies/licensing/norms
Telenoticies
Televisió de Catalunya: TV arm of state-owned CCRTV empire
Toda La Veritat: “Diario Renacentista de Castelldefels”
Vanguardia: national pretensions but only sells here, domestically conservative and monarchist, internationally aligned with fascist left, often laughably bad
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Economist
FT
Grauniad
Guardian blog
Normblog
Portadown News: the best
Socialist Worker
Spectator
Sun
Telegraph
Tribune: I didn’t know it still existed…
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‘t Ei van Ko - Enschede spycam: hahahahaha
Accuweather: 15-day forecast for Barcelona
BBC 5-day for Barcelona
Beach conditions: water temperature, wave height etc
Current temperature
Joan Arús’ extreme weather page
Met Office 3-day surface pressure
Meteoclimatic: real-time and historic weather data from Spain and its dangly bits
Pyrenean weather
Weather alert
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Alternative Catalan dictionary: short glossary of abuse
Arabic dictionaries @ Le Monde
Arabisms in Spanish
BBC News styleguide: PDF
Bartleby
British National Corpus: 50 hits only in free version
CORDE: RAE diachronic corpus; help section (inc logical expressions, wild cards) here
Caló words in flamenco
Canarian dictionary
Catalan corpus
Catalan proverbs
Catalan quotes
Catalan-English (Diccionaris.net)
Collins: various translation
Comprendium Catalan / Spanish / English / French / German translator
Corpus del Español: Mark Davies / Brigham Young
Diccionario Lunfardo: Muñeca brava, anyone?
Diccionario breve de mexicanismos
Diccionario de burradas
Diccionario de ideas afines (1899)
Diccionario geográfico universal
Diccionario panhispánico de dudas
Dictionary of Catalan, Valencian and Blearic
Dictionary of medieval Occitan
Dictionary.com: various translation
Dictionnaire de l’Académie française: A-N only
Digitale Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Dutch corpora / lexica: if you can get in…
EKI: special characters
Early Modern English Dictionaries Database: still haven’t found a way into this one
EuroDicAutom
EuroDicAutom : European terminology database
Glosario fianciero
Guardian styleguide
HTML entity encoder: I’ll put this all in the right section one day
IEC Balearic, Catalan, Valencian dictionary
Indo-European Etymological Dictionary: @ Leiden
Interactive IPA chart
Internostrum: ES-CA-ES translation
Irish English/slang
JA Millán dictionary list
JC Wells: diacritics
Jewish 1906 encyclopedia
LEO German-English
Literary Encyclopaedia: world lit in English
Mega dictionary search
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon: 1888-1889 edition
Michigan Early Modern English Materials
Old French dictionaries
Plant taxonomy - general
Portuguese translation resources
Portuguese-English corpus
RAE NTLLE: C18th+ Spanish dictionaries
Rhymezone: roimes, aunty nyms and that stuff
Romany / English dictionary: (Angela Ba’Tal Libal and Will Strain)
Romany / English lexicon: (Manfri Wood)
Scots National Dictionary
Scott Sadowsky: large collection of Spanish-English glossaries
Spanish regionalisms
Spanish rhyming dictionary / Diccionario de rimas
Spanish-Argentine dictionary: by Alberto J Miyara
Systran: various translation
THR: small Spanish-German-English link collection
TermCat: Catalan glossaries
The Free Dictionary
UNESCO Thesaurus : search English/French/Spanish terms
Van Dale dictionary
Vocabolario Etimologico di Pianigiani
Webmonkey: special characters
Wordtheque: database of multilingual novels, technical literature, translated texts
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Barcelona region libraries: catalogue search
Biblioteca Nacional de Catalunya: catalogue search
Biblioteca Virtual Joan Lluís Vives: Catalan standard works, best stuff currently the periodicals
British Academy
Dutch central catalogue
Gallica: French national library, good mediaeval image collection
Portuguese National Library
Tufts Digital Library: incl history and topography of London
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3D maps
Barcelona street guide
Catalan-Aragonese imperialism in the C13th-14th
Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies: GIS resources
Coordinates => altitude
Digital chart of world: via Penn State
Follow The Baldie meeting places
GEOnet Names Server (GNS): extra-US geographic feature names
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Hipermapa. Atles electrònic de Catalunya
Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya
Location locator
Map History / History of Cartography
Placename => coordinates
Public transport maps
Spanish White Pages
Spanish Yellow Pages
Spanish street guide
Tree of Life
ViaMichelin: route planner, good maps
distribution maps of plants
street plans
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Avibase: Catalan bird list
Catalan doctoral thesis search
Online graphing tool
Ornitologia.org: Catalan bird list (PDF)
Random string generator
Weather stations
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Andorra government stats
Ibae: Balearic government stats
Idescat: Catalan government stats institute
Insee (Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques): French national stats institute
Instituto Nacional de Estadística: Spanish government stats
peGV: Valencian government stats
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International Education in Spain: providers of professional services in Spain to international students and educators with a listing of universities, secondary schools, language schools and program
Speakeasy: high quality intensive Spanish courses with an effective study program and cheap prices in the centre of Barcelona
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Diccionario geográfico universal
GeoCrítica: Collection of online human geography essays @ University of Barcelona + more good stuff
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C18th resources
Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Portal Gironí d’Història i Genealogia: a lot of good stuff, including links
Real Academia de la Historia: phenomenally useless site
Tiempos Modernos: modern history journal
e-Journal of Portuguese History
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Acta Literaria: Universidad de Concepción Chile Revista ACTA LITERARIA es una fuente de consulta para los profesionales y estudiosos de la literatura, siendo un órgano de difusión nacional e internacional
American Institute for Catalan Studies (AICS)
Catalan language resources: Consorci per a la Normalització Lingüística
CiberLetras: Revista de crítica literaria y de cultura
Creolica: Creole research journal
Delaware Review of Latin American Studies
Diccionario breve de mexicanismos
Digitale bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren: large collection of Dutch literature, from which the RAE could learn
ElCastellano.org: organ of Asociación Cultural Antonio de Nebrija
Estudios filológicos: studies on linguistics and literature, especially themes related to the Spanish language and Spanish and Hispanoamerican literatures.
French in the nineteenth century: excellent links page
Good corpora link site
Grup Català de Sociolingüística
History of Spanish
IPA in Unicode
Iberian links page
JA Millán links site: good
Journal of Iberian and Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies : Rutgers journal
Lingüística en la red: journal
Linguist list archives
Linguistica Occitana
Literatura y Lingüística
Lowlands-L: Dutch, Zeelands, Frisian, Low Saxon etc
Marges Linguistiques: includes theses
Medieval Occitan lexicon
Nederlandse Taalunie
Ref works (Centro Virtual Cervantes)
Refranero mexicano
Romany / English dictionary: (Angela Ba’Tal Libal and Will Strain)
Thesoc: basa de donadas linguisticas de l’occitan
Tongue twisters: hazewindhondhalsbandslotsleutelgaatjesmakersleerling
Translation tools interface
Universidad de los Andes revista
WordOrigins.org: “forum is to answer questions and conduct discussion regarding word and phrase origins and about the English language writ large”
Wordlab: “The Free Business Naming and Branding Community”
Wordtheque: database of multilingual novels, technical literature, translated texts
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CDC
CGT: Confederación General del Trabajo
CiU: wobbly CDC-UDC coalition
EUR-lex search engine
Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya
Gobierno de Aragón
ICV: ragbag of Communists and people without a decent haircut
Ideofact: Islam, Islamism
Independentisme.org: online shop selling silly hats and stickers
PSOE: Spanish socialist party
PSUC viu: real old-fashioned Communists
Partit Popular de Catalunya
Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya
UDC: Stalinist bonehead fanclub
Unitat Nacional Catalana: more crazies
Visca la Terra: site glorifying Catalan terrorism
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Add this site to your favourites
Celsius <=> Fahrenheit
Coordinates => altitude
Crown of Aragon currency calculator: mid-13th century accounting units and the cost of living
Distance converter
Exchange rates
Location locator
MIDI standard drum set
Mega dictionary search
Mega news search
Placename => coordinates
World clock
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Barcelona Holiday Extras: accommodation, car hire and holiday insurance
Oh-Barcelona: Barcelona apartments for short-term rental
Pals (Costa Brava): holiday apartment to let
Vakantiesites.com: het startpunt van uw vakantie. Vele vakantiehuizen, hotels, campings, reizen, reisorganisaties en meer
WeBarcelona: on-line hotel reservations, short rental apartments and rooms in Barcelona and useful information for the visitor
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Barcelonagids.com: wat is er te doen in Barcelona?
Canning/freezing/drying food safely
Council agenda
GaysAbroad: for gay men who live in, are moving to or are visiting Barcelona
InternationalStudent.com
Naar Barcelona
Salir en Barcelona
Simply Barcelona
Spain Expat: your resource for living in Spain
Time Out
Verdi cinemas
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ATM: Barcelona metropolitan transport authority
Autocars Mir: Ripollès
Deutsche Bahn: international planner
El Prat/Barcelona airport
FGC: local trains
Metropolitan area integrated ticket prices: includes metro, tram, bus, trains
Metropolitan area zone map: FGC
Openbaar vervoer: excellent link page
Public transport maps
Public transport planner
Renfe trains
Sagalés: buses
Sarfa: buses round Figueres
TMB: trams, buses, metro
Teisa: buses E of Girona
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BiciWiki
Bicicleta Club de Catalunya (BACC)
Federació d’Entitats Excursionistes de Catalunya
GRs in Aragon
Gava mines
Long distance paths (Catalonia, Spain, Europe)
Senderisme.com
ShowCaves
Sigma Leisure: publishers of UK & European walking guides
Vías Verdes: walking along railway tracks
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