Three Monkeys Online

A Curious, Alternative Magazine

Slovenia

  • Ljubljana

    Ljubljana is one of Europe's coolest capital cities, famed for its castle, beautiful bridges, vibran
  • News for Parrots

    Way back when, Monty Python had a sketch mocking the insularity of BBC newscasters. The “News for Parrots” delivered an unashamedly parrot-centric view of the world: “Good evening. H
  • Business as usual

    Yes, it’s good to be back in Poland, where pedestrians are inexorably being pushed off the streets by people handing out leaflets (schools, loans) to pedestrians. Turning, inevitably, to the pap
  • A tonic for workers?

    What is the driving force of the modern U.S. economy, that $12.5 trillion colossus? Can it be found in Silicon Valley, recovered from the dot.com slump and rejuvenated by the revivalist-tent atmospher
  • Boosting House Prices

    In real terms the labeling of a town/site with the badge
  • Not mentioned in the timeshare brochure

    The English-language web edition of Der Spiegel offers a rather chilling portrait of that supposed expat heaven, Dubai: If one accepts the commonplaces of the debate on world cultures, Dubai is an imp
  • Strictly academic

    On the letters page of Saturday’s Irish Times the names of over 60 Irish and Ireland-based academics were listed under a petition calling for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The rubr
  • Oriana Fallaci – Rage and Pride

    Sophia Loren, a friend of Oriana Fallaci, interviewed by the Corriere della Sera following Fallaci
  • We have now pictures

    In my previous post, I suggested that the late Oriana Fallaci succeeded in making smoking a fag seem quite glam. Susan Sontag, some of whose journals were published last Sunday, could also strike a fi
  • The scourge of the fundamentalists

    Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist noted for her vitriolic attacks on Islam, has died , aged 76, in a hospital in Florence. A proper journalist, she was almost killed in Mexico, made Kissinger tug