“If they’re Moors, how come they don’t speak Muslim?”

“Welcome to Alosa.com. There is absolutely nothing here to see or do. Have a nice day. Goodbye.”

On being discovered taking a leak up the wall of a Renaissance palace following the historic 1-1 draw against Barcelona: “It’s ma hus!”

Free weekend in Andorra for best buttocks.

Drifter massacred locusts

“the number of interested people in having an Open Content Arabic Encyclopedia doesn’t reflect the number of Arabic people over the Internet”

I always liked the bit in Qathafi’s Green Book where it says, “It is an undisputed fact that both man and woman are human beings.” This photo over at Ammar Ibrahim’s suggests that the latter may be only partially acknowledged in Syria – or it may just be their spelling. “Hier is the factory” is [...]

Karim’s got photos, more photos, even more photos and video of the Tunisian tornado and storms 10 days ago. I challenge you to find that on Google News.

The phonetic rebranding of Kaleboel.

“We put with the low ones when to a leñero and small player of stature we called dwarf to him. And with that they have the great ears when a soccer player of ample earpieces puts a goal to us and we called orejudos to them. ” More here.

“I’m French, I feel Basque and Navarran, and people say I’ve got a Labortano mentality,” says Andrés Diharassarry Organbide, mayor and native of Urdax in Spain and ex-councillor over the border. The stress doesn’t look like it’s getting to him.

Valencian minister Rafael Blasco wants to bang through a law that, citing the basic right of all humans to golf and sustainability, gives him the exclusive right to build housing estates wherever he likes, and the golf course may get finished one day. (Levante article & editorial, via Libro de Notas)

Forget sects offering free painting lessons or the passionate revivalism of the Catalan communists: deranged Spain is already moving en masse into herbs, says Trapo.

Everyone and our auntie is reporting on the popularity of the new mafia studies course in Rome. Any suggestions as to which will be the first Spanish university to offer a degree in enchufismo?

Terminus Café next to Barbastro bus station is said to have closed before any of its few clients managed to implement the sign’s suggestion. Barbastro was the birthplace of the founder of Opus Dei, so it was always going to be tough.

Unfortunately this Barcelona café doesn’t actually sell sugar-rich voodoo figurines of Bush, Kerry, or Scandinavian bridesmaids’ roommates.

San Francisco wants out but Spain’s too expensive, says SFGate.

Bitneriáceo is an excellent puzzle blog. This looks easy, but I’m still foxed.

It is suggested that an old Spanish slang word has nothing at all to do with Dutch pirates but instead adds weight to David Kleinecke’s generally discarded South American etymology of the word “pidgin”.

Enschede aan Zee -> French developer’s Flash CV in English and French. Why, tho, does his blog say “Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corporation”?