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Celebrating America

Tom Tomorrow is up to his usual tricks. Cute recent This Modern World installment is, as usual, acerbic, funny, and,...

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October 30, 2001
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Semantic attacks

I'd heard of "social engineering" before; that's a form of hacking that involves breaking into computer systems by getting secure...

Jed

October 30, 2001
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Tmesis

Mary Anne wrote that Emerson "stuck another word in the midst of 'whatsoever' -- i.e., 'what difficulty soever' or 'what...

Jed

October 30, 2001
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Lawsuit

Pakistani man sues United Airlines for refusing to let him fly, according to this article in the San Francisco Chronicle....

Jed

October 30, 2001
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Set the Wayback machine

I've been hearing about this, or variants on it, for a while, but it's only just been made available to...

Jed

October 30, 2001
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Big dare

November, it seems, is National Novel Writing Month. The folks at NaNoWriMo (as they call it) encourage people to sign...

Jed

October 30, 2001
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Auctioning services

Cute fake eBay auction of one (1) ass-kicking. Seller will visit buyer's house and kick their ass. Good to know...

Jed

October 30, 2001
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Wil Wheaton lives

Like, omigod! Wil Wheaton (yes, as in Wesley Crusher from ST:TNG) not only has a journal/Weblog (at that site—sample: "something...

Jed

October 30, 2001
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Next-gen display technology

Samsung SDI is working on OLED displays—Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. I know nothing about OLEDs besides what it says in this...

Jed

October 29, 2001
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Etymology answer

The OED reveals, as far as we can tell, that Islam is cognate with salaam but not actually derived from...

Jed

October 29, 2001
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Etymology of “Islam”

At least two sources in the past few days have indicated that the word Islam derives from the word salaam,...

Jed

October 28, 2001
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Suicide bombers

Long but fascinating New York Times article describing the thoughts and opinions of various Muslims in Gaza, Cairo, and Hamburg...

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October 28, 2001
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