This is surely where this took place, and this must have been one of the last guests pre-mortem. I liked the unconsciously gruesome comments on TripAdvisor about the chilly welcome and subsidence on the tennis court, and a couple of the photos are thoroughly spooky.

Public auctions of wrecks in Barcelona, Pontevedra and Algeciras, with thoughts on how to reduce blogging competition.

With the Anglo-Saxon plot in tatters and Jewish machinations a non-starter, some strategic paranoia for Mr Zapatero. (Like: Is Mendelssohn’s Elijah a secret weapon of German subversion?)

Hasta luego Edgar León, but what’s the real solution?

The precedents for, and some possible implications of, the Catalanisation of Barcelona’s cinemas. Plus some crowd-pleasing video of the Quebec language police in action. (Allez! Allez! Allez! And the hell with the economy!) All in somewhat fevered response to an article by Martin Dahms in the Tages-Anzeiger.

On this day in 1466, one Juan Sort, aged 70, was beheaded for the misappropriation of public funds. Millet is said by the auditors to have stolen around 30 million and has fessed to around 10%, but has not been anywhere near a prison, and indeed seems to think that by looking old and grey [...]

Influence of fat content on palatability of roast beef.

Trademark theft to liven up the Spanish fruit and veg price-war?

Google translates the “I’m feeling lucky” button into Spanish as “Voy a tener suerte”, which is closer to “It’s my lucky day.” So, easy meat for ventura24.es, which wants to associate a brand for losers with one where you really do win (almost) every time you play. Google may be an addiction, but it isn’t [...]

It’s not what you steal, it’s the way that you steal it.

What do ghit ratios from La Vanguardia, El Periodico, El País, ADN, ABC, El Mundo, Público, and Levante tell us about their owners’ priorities?

Tracing that hot doggie.

Serious separatists will drive on the left, in Vic, starting Sunday.

Both white and black men prohibited from ambulant advertising.

Yo, el vaquilla, quinqui cinema, and the usual political whining.

With a description of how thieves work Barcelona’s metro station platforms.

And whatever you do don’t let them loose in fields containing horses.

It’s looking good, and who the hell cares if it’s unconstitutional?

Use spam calls from Telefónica as a free sex chat service and they may leave you alone.

Check out veteran socialist moderate Joaquín Leguina on the silence from both major parties re the abuse of judicial power when it suits their ends. And Ignacio Escolar has some interesting PP quotes from the last century. And UPyD says it can be fixed with legal and constitutional reform.