Bought DVDs drive me nuts already with the unskippable beginning where the film company warns you that copying or broadcasting the DVD is illegal. But things can get worse – IBM has patented a way to stop the films periodically and disable the DVD controls, forcing you to watch canned adverts: …15 minutes or . . . → Read More: What are they thinking of?
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The Pope has blasted Europeans for being selfish and not having enough children, in a sermon at the 850-year-old Austrian pilgrimage site of Mariazell… …The pontiff had denounced abortion upon arriving in Austria on Friday as the “very opposite” of human rights… Isn’t over 6.6 billion people on this planet enough? In 1950 the . . . → Read More: Isn’t 6,618,000,000 people enough? We visited the Documenta 12 in Kassel yesterday – with high expectations. The show is only held every 5 years, and when we last went, we spent two days there and could have spent longer. This time, I have to say that we agree with the arts correspondent of the Daily Telegraph: The . . . → Read More: Documenta 12 We just got asked by a good friend whether we’d kept a copy of this joke (voted the best e-mail of 1997) – well we hadn’t, but thanks to Google it was easy enough to find. It is worth another read (and your English had better be near native-level or you’ll not understand . . . → Read More: Ruin Sorbees His latest installation at Glastonbury. A British publisher, Self Made Hero, has brought out a series of Shakespeare’s plays as manga comics with abridged texts in the original Shakesperian English. A second publisher, Classic Comics, has gone a step further, producing full colour comics in different versions. You can get them as abridged versions which use the original . . . → Read More: Manga Shakespeare (Spotted on Lenguas Entrelazadas, Carlos Ferrero Martín’s dual-language blog from Salamanca) Op Art opened in the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt am Main yesterday. It contains optical illusions from the 1950′s and 1960′s by artists such as Victor Vasarely, Bridget Riley, François Morellet, Julio Le Parc, and Gianni Colombo. We’re definitely planning to visit it in the next couple of weeks. It’s on until 20th . . . → Read More: Op Art Carrying on with our idea of watching DVDs that have a Spanish and an English sound track to improve our Spanish, we watched Bandidas (Penélope Cruz / Salma Hayek in the star roles) last night – in English to get an idea of the story, before we watch it in Spanish again in a . . . → Read More: Bandidas One thing I like to do when I have time is to follow links from one web site to the next exploring new connections. Today, starting from Transblawg, I found myself after several clicks reading a longish paper on The Translation and Dubbing of ‘Fuck’ into Catalan: The Case of From Dusk till . . . → Read More: How to translate “fuck” into Catalan |
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