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LeTigre - New Kicks (via RadioPotato)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:39:49 +0100

LeTigre - New Kicks (via RadioPotato)

"Kiva connects people through lending to alleviate poverty."

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:58:42 +0100

“Kiva connects people through lending to alleviate poverty.”

- Kiva - Loans that change lives

Nits - Rumspringa 2003 (via nitsfan)

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:29:10 +0100

Nits - Rumspringa 2003 (via nitsfan)

"This website is made for people who love languages… If you are a foreign language enthusiast,..."

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:43:19 +0100

“

This website is made for people who love languages…

If you are a foreign language enthusiast, a polyglot or just want to learn a new language on your own, you will find here:

* How to choose a new language to learn
* A detailed, hands-on guide to teaching yourself a foreign language.
* Reviews of books about language learning
* The questions about language learning people ask me most frequently.

”

- Learning Languages

"23-F is the name given to an attempted coup d’état in Spain that began on 23 February 1981 and..."

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:45:59 +0100

“23-F is the name given to an attempted coup d’état in Spain that began on 23 February 1981 and ended on the following day. It is also known as El Tejerazo from the name of its most visible figure, Antonio Tejero, who led the failed coup’s most notable event: the bursting into the Spanish Congress of Deputies of a group of 200 armed officers of the Guardia Civil during the process of electing Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo to be the country’s new Prime Minister. King Juan Carlos I gave a nationally televised address denouncing the coup and urging the maintenance of law and the continuance of the democratically elected government. The coup soon collapsed. After holding the Parliament and cabinet hostage for 18 hours the hostage-takers surrendered the next morning without having harmed anyone.”

- 23-F - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:40:17 +0100

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"Early Saturday evening, my daughter and I were one of forty or fifty lucky people who gathered in an..."

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:03:17 +0100

“Early Saturday evening, my daughter and I were one of forty or fifty lucky people who gathered in an apartment at a secret location somewhere in Paris to watch Rivkah perform at the Oliver Peel Session #16.”

- Oliver Peel Session #16 - smudie

"Les fêtards de la nuit se plaignent. La vie nocturne serait en train de mourir à Paris. Technopol,..."

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:36:31 +0100

“Les fêtards de la nuit se plaignent. La vie nocturne serait en train de mourir à Paris. Technopol, une association de “clubbers” cherche à mobiliser le monde de la nuit autour d’une pétition en forme de cri d’alerte. Son slogan: “La nuit meurt en silence”, agrémenté d’une affichette tendant à montrer que la vie nocturne européenne est maintenant à rechercher à Londres, à Barcelone, à Prague ou à Berlin …. mais en aucun cas à Paris.”

- Paris by-night …

"The broken Britain of legend is one where danger stalks the streets as never before. In the real..."

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:09:08 +0100

“The broken Britain of legend is one where danger stalks the streets as never before. In the real Britain, the police have just recorded the lowest number of murders for 19 years… And more mundane crimes have fallen too: burglaries and car theft are about half as common now as they were 15 years ago. Even the onset of recession has not reversed that downward trend so far.”

- The state of Britain: How broken is Britain? | The Economist

CIBELLE Live! wow (via mattmug13)

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:14:22 +0100

CIBELLE Live! wow (via mattmug13)

"Thai fisherman pants are lightweight unisex trousers that are made very wide in the waist, one size..."

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:32:22 +0100

“Thai fisherman pants are lightweight unisex trousers that are made very wide in the waist, one size fits all.”

- Thai fisherman pants - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"GOOGLE is developing software for the first phone capable of translating foreign languages almost..."

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:46:41 +0100

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GOOGLE is developing software for the first phone capable of translating foreign languages almost instantly — like the Babel Fish in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

By building on existing technologies in voice recognition and automatic translation, Google hopes to have a basic system ready within a couple of years.

…

“Everyone has a different voice, accent and pitch… But recognition should be effective with mobile phones because by nature they are personal to you. The phone should get a feel for your voice from past voice search queries, for example.”

”

- Google leaps language barrier with translator phone - Times Online