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Spanish festivals

Saturday, February 4th, 2012 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »

What do Spaniards have that other countries appear to be missing? There seem to be many bizarre traditions and abundant festivities that are unique to Spain. Example 1: The annual festival of Els Enfarinats. In the town of Ibi in Alicante, on ...

Owls

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »

I've always thought of owls as fascinating animals: But be warned: owls are not pets

People: Celebrations and protests

Monday, January 23rd, 2012 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »

The Boston Globe's Big Picture featured two photo series on the way people celebrate and protest: A step-by-step guide to celebrating Global protests My earlier posts in the series People: (1) (2) (3)

Having one of those days…?

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »

... where things just don't seem to work out? Here's the perfect antidote: Which other songs have this effect on you?

People – The way the world eats out

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »

Foreign Policy has a nice slide show about street food vendors (click to view). My earlier posts in the series People: (1) (2)

Happy new Year 2012!

Saturday, December 31st, 2011 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »

I wish you all a fruitful 2012. This one's for right before 0:00     This one's for after:     BTW: While I'm writing this post the Dutch radio channel Radio2 is doing its annual Top 2000 with Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (re-instated) at #1:     While searching for ...

Posting frequency down

Sunday, April 24th, 2011 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »

I have a great new job at Calco-IT, but that means more travel time, so the frequency of my posts has gone down last week. It's unlikely that I can maintain the one-post-per-day rhythm from the last couple of months, ...

Woman puts waste bottle in the bin…

Friday, April 1st, 2011 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »

... and look what happens. Awesome stunt!

Geography lesson: Countries of the world

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »

Reminds me of Tom Lehrer's Elements...

Always look on the bright side of life

Monday, March 28th, 2011 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »

This is a nice version of the Monty Python song! Here's the 'original'