October 2009


Miscellany23 Oct 2009 10:53 pm

** Ok, so she admits it. They knew all along that the kid wasn’t in the balloon. I’m so happy that’s over. We won’t hear any more about now, right? Right? Right?

** Asterix turns 50! I remember first reading Asterix as a kid. The Romans all spoke in Latin phrases that have made it to the modern day, but didn’t actually make sense in the context of the strip. Maybe one guy would say, “In vino veritas” and the other would reply, “semper fidelis, sic, id est.” At least, that’s how I remember it. It was my first introduction to Latin.

** An extract from Dave Eggers’s novel based on “Where the Wild Things Are”.

** Craigslist isn’t liable for prostitution ads.

Net and Tech and Science and Such16 Oct 2009 05:27 am
Science and Such16 Oct 2009 05:03 am
Evolution and Such12 Oct 2009 09:31 pm
Language/Lit12 Oct 2009 02:30 pm
Net and Tech11 Oct 2009 07:43 am
Language/Lit and Famous People07 Oct 2009 09:25 pm
Law and Famous People06 Oct 2009 03:20 pm
Language/Lit06 Oct 2009 10:25 am
Language/Lit05 Oct 2009 09:19 pm
Language/Lit and Personal01 Oct 2009 10:58 pm