Michael Giberson The ever quotable Yzma, from Disney’s The Emperor’s New Groove: Ah, how shall I do it? Oh, I know. I’ll turn him into a flea, a harmless, little flea, and then I’ll put that flea in a box, and then I’ll put that box inside of another box, and then I’ll mail that …
Lynne Kiesling Courtesy of Rich Sweeney at Common Tragedies, this is the most direct impact that the AIG bailout will have in the KP household (click through to see what I mean). Tee hee!
Lynne Kiesling Did you know that the numerical distribution of chocolate chips in commercially baked cookies is Poisson?
Lynne Kiesling I am studiously trying to ignore the presidential season, but Alex Massie’s Wodehouse-ian gloss on Hillary Clinton (and, tangentially, Mike Huckabee at the end) really made me laugh, and has enough of a grain of truth in it to be insightful. In my sourer moments I find myself persuaded that Bertie Wooster’s verdict …
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Lynne Kiesling Here’s a fun new find on my radar screen: Inkling Magazine (on the hunch that science rocks), and its associated blog Inky Circus. Great, amusing, witty, girly geek chic. In particular check out the entry on their She’s Such A Geek Photo Contest. See, it’s cool to be a girly geek …
Lynne Kiesling A delightful little holiday diversion: T.C. Boyle’s short story I Dated Jane Austen is available to read at his website, complete with woodcut comic illustrations.
Lynne Kiesling Check out this Austrialian doctor who has rigged up a Tesla coil Christmas tree! How geekily cool. He even has his own website, of course.
Michael Giberson Quoting Grimmelmann: First off, the Times pleads its inability to re-report every challenged story. Fair enough…. It’s one thing not to revisit stories as new information becomes available. (The Times isn’t Wikipedia, after all, and we shouldn’t hold it to the same higher standards of timeliness.) But it’s something else not to append …
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Lynne Kiesling I can already tell today will be a silly day … first, serious props to Glenn Reynolds for his his subtle Monty Python joke in this post about moose lawsuits, referring to this post of Eugene Volokh’s. Then, after finding this TV column from Slate last week, I am thrilled-thrilled-thrilled to find out …
Lynne Kiesling OK, this is one the better April Fool’s Day techie pranks I’ve seen in a while: MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1, 2007 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google TiSP (BETA)™, a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users’ plumbing systems. The Toilet Internet Service …
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