Posts under ‘fun’
50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice
Geoffrey Pullum trashes "The Elements of Style"
EFF: Oppose Obama’s reversal on wiretapping
DoJ argues wiretapping program is a "state secret", beyond the courts; and the US has "sovereign immunity" against lawsuits for spying that violates federal privacy laws
Just testing the new posting method
Just testing the new posting method
Obama turns to the dark side on warrantless wiretapping
EFF calls his DoJ's stance "worse than Bush's"
Stephen Wolfram is nuts
“Wolfram|Alpha isn’t really a search engine, because we compute the answers, and we discover new truths. If anything, you might call it a platonic search engine, unearthing eternal truths that may never have been written down before…”
– Stephen Wolfram (who’s like that guy in Pi who drills a hole in his head)
What’ll kill you?
Between 310,000 and 580,000 of us will commit suicide by cigarette this year