an article that seems on-target about the recent plagiarism-at-the-Times scandal, except for the stuff about the plagiarist being unique; I doubt if this...
Yes. I think the article is funny (assuming of course that its take is accurate) about the silly stuffy bureaucracy of the Times, and its pompous system and ...
An eBay sales pitch I actually enjoyed reading: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3532972825&ssPageName= ADME:B:SS:US:1 Here's the best part: ...
Forwarding message from James Gill. [Jul/02/2003 09:37] [micropayment comic available...] http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/trn/intro.html ... - t "I know . ....
... Hey, I'm willing to support the arts two bits worth. But after creating a BitPass account, it wouldn't take my money on my Mac. On my Windows machine, it...
... That is sad news. I wonder if it will take money* off my Linux box... Windows-centrism is, as you know, my most fervently opposed ideology. Dark days. -t *...
A brief review of the latest Harry Potter: http://www.reason.com/links/links070203.shtml The reviewer argues that the recent Harry Potter book is subversive of...
My take: Harry Potter is an insufferable twit. Throughout, the logic is that HP is right and magically blessed in being right, and everyone else is wrong,...
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i43/43b00501.htm From the issue dated July 4, 2003 OBSERVER ... ¢¢ "I know . . . I know . . . I use too many ellipses. . . ."...
This is very funny. Most of the textbooks I've seen at the undergraduate level are hopeless. Massive tomes, and massive tombs. Boxes and take outs and little...
Note that I am *not* a baseball fan. I mention this because I don't want you to think that I liked this book because it is about baseball. It *is* about...
It doesn't get much cooler than this: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/12/nyregion/12GREE.html?ei=1&en= fea7726e1a03d9a6&ex=1059090935&pagewanted=print&position=...
GENEALOGY OF THE GODS BOOK ========================== I question the validity of this. Some of the gods and demi-gods were the offspring of intercourse with a ...
Forwarding message from BuzzWhack. [Jul/17/2003 04:28] [Today's Buzzword - e-mail ellipsia] ... - t "I know . . . I know . . . I use too many ellipses. . . ."...
I have too many books. So I use eBay as a convenient way of paring down my stacks. Yesterday I listed a bunch, and I'll be listing a few more as the weeks wear...
I've long wondered about this: http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=05284 Why some Web pages tended for so long to look "too small" on my Mac screen, but...
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Forwarding message from Kevin Brook [whose Khazaria.com newsletter often provides interesting information on the origins of Eastern European Jewry]... ... - t ...
A good example of the op-ed art: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20030725.shtml One could study this for pointers, or simply wince in ...
My favorite painter was also a comics artist. An online comics source laments his concentration on the fine arts, but has nice to say about his highbrow work,...
... ===================================================== I want to invite everyone to attend the TENTH EVER LOUISIANA POETRY BEE This Sunday August 10, 2003 ...
I deleted the Opera browser from my computer a few minutes ago. It was just taking up space....* I've come to enjoy using Mozilla. It shows pages almost as...
If reading a book many times indicates quality, then "Wilt" by Tom Sharpe is a masterpiece! Well, I just read it for the umpteenth time. Very good sex farce,...
In a recent "Perpetual Three-Dot Column" column, my friend Jesse Walker goes on a confession binge, listing nearly every factual error he's made in print: ...
Here's the online article that got our French and American authors confused: http://www.jules.org/news-in-brief(4-97).html#neander I lift and send (below) the...
I occasionally google my names.... I found myself quoted amidst famous company: http://www.freedomkeys.com/politicians.htm "[In politics] no good deed goes...
This is a doozy: "Prejudices are moral corns; anything that touches one makes it ache more or less, but the pain is always of the same kind. You cannot get a ...
... BUNCOMBE or BUNKUM (From Buncombe County, N.C., U.S.A.), a term used for insincere political action or speaking to gain support or the favour of a...
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