Day archive for August 7th, 2004

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Top 10 Catalan cities

Posted: August 7th 2004 16:25. Last modified: February 27th 2009 22:06

An example of the complete bollocks with which travel sites think you’ll be satisfied is to be found on Travelcreek, which tells us that:
Gerona is the second largest city in the province of Catalunya after Barcelona and is dissected by the Onyar river.
Leaving aside the fact that Catalonia isn’t a province, Girona hasn’t been on [...]

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Categories: Splog

Wulong: We plant the rice only. We plant the opium never

Posted: August 7th 2004 11:32.

Wulong has gone today from being a starving, soaking peasant living in a bamboo hut with his Tosh (1/2) to collecting funds on behalf of Shan secessionists, on which I have no view. It’s too hot.


Categories: Splog

German language reforms fail

Posted: August 7th 2004 02:44.

Satirical mag Titanic has gone one better than publishers Springer & Spiegel, who yesterday deserted the state language reforms of the mid-90s:


Categories: Languages, Splog

Damn, Firefox is seriously good

Posted: August 7th 2004 01:07.

Get 0.9 and bin MSIE is the advice of this rank conservative.


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On this day

Barcelona

  • March 21 1848 

    En Barcelona como en otras partes comienza hoy la primavera, que en honor de la verdad no suele ser aqui la estacion mas hermosa del año. Cierto que ya los árboles comienzan á echar hoja, y que la linda y olorosa violeta alfombra los jardines y ribazos, y que le hacen cortejo otras flores; per...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 21 de març de 1918 En aquest paĂ­s tenim un costum molt curiĂłs. Quan ens trobem, al carrer, dues persones, cara a cara, no tenim, a penes, res a dir-nos. Però, una vegada acomiadats i fets set o vuit passos, se’ns ocorren tot d’una una sèrie de coses urgents a dir a la persona que hem deixat fa un moment. [...]
  • 21 de març de 1919 Inici de la primavera. Biblioteca. Tot traduint Renard penso que Ă©s mĂ©s important dominar un ofici qualsevol que posseir una curiositat dilatada, vastĂ­ssima. La curiositat es pot improvisar; un ofici, no. La curiositat Ă©s superficialment agradable, però deixa una certa buidor amarga per dintre. Un ofici Ă©s monòton i pesat, però tĂ© moments d’una voluptuositat [...]

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