Humor

Presidential Candidates Through the Lens of Wodehouse

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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Girly Geek Chic

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 …

James Grimmelmann on Errors Published in the New York Times

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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Google’s New Home Wireless Offering

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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