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Blogger closed down my favourite copyright violation site!

Posted: February 14th 2010 13:36. Last modified: March 3rd 2010 09:59

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

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Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois, Music, The law court

Big window, little world

Posted: December 14th 2009 09:07.

Sharing with the collective.

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Categories: Les bourgeois

Spanish Christmas Lottery rips off Google logo

Posted: November 16th 2009 10:52. Last modified: November 16th 2009 11:01

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 [...]

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Categories: Gambling, Les bourgeois, The law court

Ghit goes generic

Posted: October 28th 2009 10:16.

The Danish-based trends site Ghits.dk is now using my most popular neologism (Google hit -> ghit) for both Google and Yahoo searches. (Dear Mr Larsen, any chance of a link back to the source of your inspiration? Kalebeul or FollowTheBaldie.com would do nicely!)

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Categories: Languages, Les bourgeois

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  • March 19 1840 Se coloca la primera piedra para formar la plaza del mercado de la Bocaría en el terreno que fue iglesia de S. José.

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

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