Flour Power

Frère Jacques, frère Jacques,
Dormez-vous? Dormez-vous?
Mangez les croissants! Mangez les croissants!
Din, dan, don. Din, dan, don.

Want to be able to wish a happy Easter to all your non English speaking friends using their own language? Here are a few ways to say it, kindly provided by my Facebook friends:

Portuguese: Páscoa Feliz!

Czech: Veselé Velikonoce!

German: Frohe Ostern!

Croatian: Sretan Uskrs!

Slovak: Veselú Veľkú Noc!

Icelandic: Gleðilega Páska!

Greek: Kalo Pascha!

Polish: Wesołych Świąt Wielkanocnych!

Romanian: Paşte fericit!

French: Joyeuses Pâques!

Dutch: Gelukkig Pasen!

Italien: Buona Pasqua!

Irish (Gaelic): Cáisc mhaith!

Swedish: Glad Påsk!

Serbian: Srecan Uskrs!

Catalan: Bones Pascues!

For a more complete list, check this page.

Happy Easter!

C’mon, move faster or you’ll be fined

@ Doolin, Ireland

I was going to write a whole post about the recent launches of Academic Earth and Youtube Edu, which aggregate thousands of free lectures from over a hundred universities (including MIT, Yale, Harvard and Stanford), but stumbled upon Lifehacker’s Top 10 Tools for a Free Online Education, which mentions them along with a few more tools to get free online education:

• Teach yourself programming
• Get a personal MBA
• Learn to actually use Ubuntu
• Get started on a new language
• Trade your skills, find an instructor
• Academic Earth and Google EDU
• Teach yourself all kinds of photography
• Get an unofficial liberal arts major
• Learn an instrument
• Learn from actual college courses online

It turns out the internet is not only for tweets, quizzes, porn and lolcats, and there’s actually a lot of useful stuff around. I had no idea…

@ the Cliffs of Moher, Ireland