Overheard in an airport in the US a couple years ago. Gives me that ol’ sic transit gloria mundi feeling, but it’s also strangely appropriate
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- Friday June 27, 2008
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- The Tube(s)
I haven’t had cable or broadcast TV (where I live you get about 2.5 channels without cable) in about ten years, but I’ve watched plenty of movies (and TV shows on DVD) at home during that time.
Initially, my cable...
- Tuesday September 12, 2006
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- Your Plastic Pals Who're Fun to Be With
Quoth one plastician:
Evangelical Christians in America are part of a long tradition of the ignorant taking with one hand the enormous benefits of science and vehemently rejecting with the other the fundamental (ha ha) premises that lead to those...
- Wednesday May 5, 2004
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- Bloody Linguists
The Authority quotes Russ Rymer:
Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers, philologists, psychologists, biologists, and neurologists, along with whatever blood can be got out...
- Tuesday April 13, 2004
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- Iraq 'em up, you knock 'em down
From this great piece, already widely blogged:
- Version 7.0 – We won’t need hundreds of thousands of troops—that’s wildly off the mark
- Version 7.1 – Mission accomplished
- Version 7.1.1 – We’ll stay as long as needed and not one day more
- Version 7.1.2...
- Tuesday April 6, 2004
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