Via Kottke blog I’ve learned that Barcelona just celebrated its last bullfight. Apparently, the vote has past last year to stop this old tradition. And as much I am in favor of preserving cultural bits, I do agree that bullfighting falls under animal cruelty and thus should be stopped. New York Times has a few photos.
Once again I found stumbled upon an excellent photograph in Yimmy Yayo blog. No comments, no links, no story, no copyrights. Just an image.
There is something in that picture that makes it impossible for me to take my eyes off it. Click on the picture to see the original.
Via Flickr blog.
I’ve seen a whole lot of “pet mods” – dressing, trimming, and coloring of pets by their disrespectful owners. Pretty much always those experiments turn out bad, and if pets could speak or understand the humiliation that were put through, I’m sure they would eat their owners alive. Or something horrible like that. Tiger dog – is the first mod that I can remember ever that actually looks pretty cool. Daily Mail reports on Chinese company that runs the business.
Via ffffound.com.
For years now Flickr has been greeting newly logged in users with messages in different languages. It’s a really nice touch with helps one learn something new each day, but without getting in the way.  While I do pay attention to these messages, usually they don’t puzzle me for more than a couple of seconds (as in “how do I read that?”).
Today, however, was different. It was the first time ever that I was greeted in Lolcat.
Lolcat, if you don’t know, is a sort of broken, but funny, English language, which usually goes together with an image of a cat. The name comes from LOL – an acronym for “laughing out loud”, and cat – an animal on the picture.
As I said, it was the first time I saw Lolcat used somewhere outside of a lolcat web site (like i can haz cheezburger). And I was surprised to see at Flickr, which is not exactly the most serious of web sites, but is still rather big and popular.
My second reaction to this Lolcat spotting was to write this post. My first reaction was “Oh culz!!!”