DTV (digital television) is here; just at a time when people are giving up on watching TV in favour of YouTube. Or so we might have thought. There’s also going to be a switchover in America. What if you’re poor and can’t afford a new television? US Congress has thought of this: two $40 vouchers [...]
An unexpectedly interesting, really good, long article about bortshch. It’s also about Ukraine and Russia and the Soviet Union, but mostly about borshch. I should try it some time.
Two weeks ago Denmark was in turmoil because Danish newspapers decided to reprint the infamous cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad after one of their authors had received death threats. And there is another Islam-related crisis brewing. This time in The Netherlands. I’ll give our readers a brief update on the situation.
Yesterday, Dutch [...]
Karl Marx said that ideology is part of the social superstructure, merely a decorative overlay on the brutal truth of the economic base. Millian liberalism was really just an expression of the pounding steam engines, Jacquard looms and downtrodden apprentices of 1840s Manchester, just as absolutism had been built on the assumption that society would [...]
PARNELL came down the road,
he said to a cheering man:
“Ireland shall get her freedom
and you still break stone.”
– W.B. Yeats
Salvador Dali on 1960s (?) US gameshow “What’s My Line”.
Via the estimable Eddie Campbell, who also made a lovely little doodle. And here’s one of Dorothy Sawyers! Let’s hope it’ll be longrunning series.
Eurovision is in Belgrade this year. Beo Grad, the white city of Serbia! Where the Danube meets, you know, some other river!
Pretty cool, no? It will be the first Eurovision in the former Yugoslavia. (Yes, there was a Eurovision in Yugoslavia in 1989. But it wasn’t former then. Doesn’t [...]
In honor of the wedding…
Kind of unfair she’s usually “former model Carla Bruni”.
Feed: A Fistful of Euros