From A Capital Idea, a piece in the Fort-Worth Star-Telegram on the use of “wife-beater” as a way to describe a white undershirt…
The Bangkok Street Dogs street dogs blog…
Prediction: In 2025, an entire cottage industry will exist to recover data from worn-out data/photo CD-ROMs…
If I insert a “c” here as marked, it becomes a rant against smilies: “The danger in free speech does not lie in the menace of ideas, but in the menace of emoti[c]ons. If words were merely logical devices no one would fear them. But when they impinge upon a moron they set off his hormones, and so they are justifiably feared." - H. L. Mencken, Baltimore Evening Sun, Nov. 18, 1929…
The 4-colour map theorem and Euler’s formula are really elegant…