The blog with no name

These two websites should give anyone a serious cuteness overdose.

Animals with love

The Cute Project

Nice piece of animation called Monalisa descending a staircase.

If you look it up on Wikipedia, Algeria's official language is Arabic. But apparently other Arabic speakers need an interpreter to understand everyday speech.

Almost five decades after independence from France in 1962 and following a decade-long Islamist insurgency, Algerians employ an everyday speaking style as mixed as their identity and history.

The linguistic jigsaw puzzle reflects the many civilisations that have occupied the North African country - Phoenicians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Turks and French.

In a recent speech, President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika, said "when other Arabs listen to someone mixing Arabic, Berber and French, they say he's Algerian. It's become our trademark!"

Bouteflika, in sympathy with traditionalists, says he would like Algerians to speak better Arabic.

Understanding Algerian speech is not easy.

In a single sentence, the subject might be in Arabic, the verb in French, the predicate in Berber or Turkish.

Full article

I never cease to be amazed by the amount of stuff you can find on the web. I keep saying I feel overwhelmed because I do. I admit that I've found many things extremely useful and my life would now be severely affected without my internet connection. I've not been in a bank for donkey years and I rely on it to find information that I need to make decisions in life.
But one of the most endearing aspect of the web is the opportunity it gives me to waste time on websites that contain information which am very unlikey to ever use in all my life.
This is one example how to count up to ten in over 5000 languages. I did not even know there were over 5000 languages.

15 August 1966
It's a PDF file. It has a strong American bias but the whole website has a lot of interesting and curious stuff.
The good thing is I can't get nostalgic as I was not even born then.