Wednesday 30 May 2012
bootstrap or birthright
halcyon or build your vocabulary
Cataflam
interjection.
Something the early Jerry Lewis used to bleat out in his movies. "Oy, Mr. Lady, please stop with the hitting and the hurting and the cataflam!"
It's funny because I don't know what any of these medicines are. What alternative definitions would you come up with for the products in your life?
catagories: health and medicine, language, networking and blogging
pyrrhic victory or yes, we have no bleeding turnips
“Another such victory and I am undone.”
catagories: ๐ช๐บ, ๐ฌ๐ท, ๐ฎ๐ช, ๐ฎ๐ธ, economic policy, foreign policy, philosophy
Tuesday 29 May 2012
faux chรขteau
freude oder schadenfreude
Monday 28 May 2012
papercraft
catagories: ๐ง
Sunday 27 May 2012
geisterstรคdte
Der Spiegel’s English-language stories section reports on an exhibition in Berlin about contemporary ghost-towns and the deliberate choices and accidents of history that are creating the phenomenon.
torch song
Protests and boycotts are always of a selective nature. Parallel to the threats by some European countries to sit-out the Euro 2012 final matches to be held in the Ukraine over the host’s treatment of its former prime-minister (apparently having had selectively made an example out of her perceived violation of public-trust) and even propose the games be held in another venue, like Germany or Poland, holding the Eurovision Song Contest in Azerbaijan was not without controversy.