CalendarBurner: Feedburner for iCal calendars

I am currently using my experience with milonga.be to build a similar site for Tango in Bulgaria. One of the major components of the site is the tango calendar. In this case I have chosen not to use a special iCal visualisation tool (more on that later in a series posts on Tango2.0), but [...]

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Mastika Peshtera

I went to Bulgaria in August, and one of the things I remarked there is that standards for advertising are somewhat different over there. One of the champions is Mastika Peshtera (”??????? ??????” - a.k.a. ‘the Bulgarian afrodisiac‘). They use scantily dressed women and green striped melons on strategic places to stress the afrodisiac dimension. [...]

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Northern Soul

I’m currently reading two related books at the same time:“Turn the beat around - the secret history of disco” by Peter Shapiro“Last night a DJ saved my life - the history of the disc jockey” by Bill Brewster and Frank BroughtonBoth speak about a phenomenon of the 60’s-70’s: Northern Soul. It is the unlikely [...]

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