It’s that time of year again, and this time all of Europe — except plucky Georgia! — turns to the Third Rome Moscow, home of Eurovision 2009.
In years past, we’ve amused ourselves to no end with the song contest. Here are posts at least as good as some years’ winning songs:
2008
Can’t Resist
2007
Who’s European?
Eurovision: The Quickening
2006
Zombies [...]

This is the 3003rd post at A Fistful of Euros. An odd number for an observance, but things are coming fast and furious these days, and I just missed MMM.
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Even though AFOE is not really a business blog, our recent and extensive coverage of the financial crisis seems to have earned us a nomination for Best Business Blog at the 2008 Weblog Awards. If you, like Paul Krugman among others, appreciate the hard work done by our authors, I invite you to cast your [...]

On behalf of the AFOE team I wish our readers a Happy New Year.
Any bets on how long it will take to catch the first Slovak euro outside of Slovakia?
PS: Do not make any resolutions. They seem to be bad for your health.

Two productivity-enhancing additions to the internet that at least a couple of our readers may not have noticed in the last 24 hours.
Google is putting the image archive of the American magazine LIFE online. Over the next few months, this will mean access to some 10 million images, the vast majority of them never published. [...]

It’s Friday afternoon, and if you, gentle readers, should want to leave the gloomy reality of a world in economic crisis behind you for a night out in Europe, you may be interested in having a look at a new web service called Happenr for hopefully useful suggestions about what to do.
According to a [...]

I’m beginning to think that our neighborhood grocery store here in Tbilisi could be an interesting source of stories about the politics and economics in the Second World. The tastiest corn chips come from Turkey, the cooking oil brands are almost all Russian (though with relations being what they are, I don’t know if the [...]

Well, maybe. I’m in a hopeful mood today.

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A tree fungus could provide green fuel that can be pumped directly into tanks, scientists say. The organism, found in [...]

London gets a visit from AFOE founder David Weman. Here’s a photo of him and fellow long-time fistfulist Matthew Turner, at the Prince of Wales, Highgate.
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In America, “I’ll take my lane in the middle” is a figure of speech. In Georgia, it’s a way of life.
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