The Food Programme on BBC Radio 4, on October 30th (it can still be heard online this week and for a few more weeks) dealt with pumpkins.

Some of the programme was a visit to Graz to learn about Styrian pumpkinseed oil, with the help of an interpreter (referred to as a ‘translator’) in parts. Good Austrian accents to be heard in other parts.

Picture from Koarl’s Kernöl.

There’s a cartoon on the need for online resources to be translated at User Friendly.

(Via Bill Poser at Language Log)

There is a Dilbert blog, and it shows the two versions of the cartoon ‘Lawyer with a Porpoise’.

(Via Law & Justice)

The Fürth blog zonebattler’s homezone started a monthly prize picture quiz on October 1st (no-one entered, but the solution is in the comments).

The November puzzle is here.

Meanwhile, here is a Fürth picture question in return: where was this shot taken?
(It’s a very easy one because I didn’t cut out the background – but there are no prizes either).

I have a link on my blogroll to www.gizmodo.com, but sometimes I go there via Google, and I was annoyed today when (eventually) I noticed that I was reading German text, and the contents were different from the original. I really hate this patronizing matching of British ads and American blogs, in this case, to my perceived interests.

At least it wasn’t a machine translation. Micro Persuasion reported on this a couple of weeks ago:

bq. Nick Denton writes in that VNU and Gawker Media have struck a licensing deal that will take Gizmodo into Europe with an eye towards becoming the ultimate European destination for everything gadget, gizmo, and cutting-edge consumer electronics-related. VNU will provide its local presence and its network of bloggers as well as its knowledge of the local consumer electronic players in Europe.
Gizmodo’s content will be translated from English into 6 additional languages, then augmented with local coverage for each market.

You can check it out in French, German, Dutch, Spanish and Italian.

I wish I’d had this interactive online tour of the church (click at top right) before I translated this.

(More pictures and videos here).