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Seen Shallow Grave? Does anything about this news article seem familiar?

[via Obscure Store]

First there was the hours-long documentary about the Hittite civilisation on our flight back from Turkey, now MeFi has a port about the Hittite language.

[via kottke] Euromyths find out the truth about all your favourite anti-European (aka eurosceptic) exaggerations in the British press.

Bendy bananas, straight cucumbers and many more.

[originally via MeFi] A mention of the town of Concrete, Washington, in this article.

It’s not a place that gets mentioned much.

(IMDb link)

One word: Fun.

It’s very silly, but it’s supposed to be. The special effects are used well and there’s enough plot to keep you watching. Most of it’s funny and there are some good cameos (Carrie Fisher pops up everywhere these days).

Go and watch it, lots of martial arts stuff without all the pretentious pseudo-philosophy of The Matrix.

One thing I noticed while I was in Turkey was the number of motorbikes around. Japanese mopeds seem to be the most popular but there are also lots of mysterious old bikes.

I thought at the time that they looked a bit eastern-European, and I was right. The most common makes I saw were MZ (DDR) and Jawa (Czechoslovakia).

I’ve added a Turkey 2003 section to the Journeys part of my site, enjoy the pictures.

I’ve now got a semi-automated way of generating photo albums, I still need to sort out some kind of database though.

Last night’s distraction was working out how to put Turkish letters into HTML, read on for more information.
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