Today's Fresh Blogs...

• A challenge to Czech youth

  Published: July 29, 2007, 7:08 pm

  Tags: Foreign Language And Geography Flag, Flame Bait

  Look, I like the Czech Republic. I've had a good time in Prague. Such helpful people in all the stores, such friendly folks on the trams and buses, so welcoming and warm, so willing to offer assistance to foreigners. Never grumpy or grouchy or pissed off. It's a nation known for hospitality, and for some great achievements. Like the Skoda. And

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• I stand corrected

  Published: August 28, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Foreign Language Geography Flag, Flame Bait, Flametards, Correction

  Much love to the helpful readers who wrote in to inform me that (a) Bono is Irish, not Scottish; and (b) the Troubles were in Ireland, not Scotland; and (c) the six counties are not in England. Man oh man. Think of it as a Homeric nod, eh? Also, my deepest apologies to the Scots who took offense at my depiction of them as belligerent hooligans who

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• Australians angry about iPhone

  Published: September 13, 2007, 9:48 am

  Tags: Foreign Language Geography Flag, Flame Bait

  Apparently a team of Australian soccer players did some kind of protest before a match and did a chant demanding iPhones. See the video here. There's a translation into Spanish but I can't read it. They were chanting in some kind of Australian language and the translation is in Spanish, for reasons I can't understand. One of our guys who does

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• Correction

  Published: September 14, 2007, 10:36 am

  Tags: Foreign Language Geography Flag, Flame Bait

  Recently I linked to a video about Australian soccer players wanting iPhones (see here). That post contained numerous errors. The athletes pictured in the video are from New Zealand, not Australia. They play rugby, not soccer. The video was translated into French, not Spanish. FSJ regrets the errors and thanks the many, many people who wrote in to

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• iPod considered as new global currency

  Published: October 4, 2007, 9:23 am

  Tags: Foreign Language Geography Flag, Flame Bait, Flametards, Ipod

  Okay, that's not exactly true. But some banks in Austria are now using the iPod as a way to compare purchasing power in different countries around the globe and compare global currencies. See here. Much love, Austrian bankers.

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• People say we're getting arrogant. My response? Fuck off, stupid.

  Published: October 4, 2007, 4:10 pm

  Tags: Flame Bait, Iphone, Flametards, I Am So Fucking Cool

  Seriously, Apple faithful, this new theme about how Apple is all arrogant and doesn't care about customers and is putting its own needs ahead of everyone else's is just really starting to spread, and I'm friggin sick of it. Check out this article for just one example. Or this one, which says "the only problem with Apple is that it has no

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• Mac share at Princeton is skyrocketing

  Published: October 8, 2007, 8:42 pm

  Tags: Flame Bait, Flametards

  See here. Forty percent of students and faculty at Princeton now use Macs, up from 10 percent in 2003-2004. Much love, Crimson. And congratulations on beating USC.

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