Category Archives: general

Chuckle of the day: A German nightclub says it has doubled its turnover and reduced the level of violence after it started using naked women as bouncers. (Link from Thomas Knapp’s Rational Review News Digest.)

Increasingly, my lists carry mail from people who (I’d have thought) ought to know better than to quote the entire thread so far. (The rot seems less advanced in Usenet – perhaps because only old fogies post to Usenet.) Also … Continue reading →

To those who come here searching for WTC+Liebkind: The name you want is Libeskind.

I was puzzled by a series of searches in my referral logs: somebody was going to Altavista for random collections of words: chicago OR storages OR sherwood OR unemployed OR disputers altercations OR slithers OR peculate OR sherwood OR unmodifiable … Continue reading →

Very puzzling mail today: Dear Anton, I see you have added your self (or more specifically a link to your website) to my start up menu of my Microsoft XP. Very clever. [ . . . ] Of course I know nothing about Windows … Continue reading →

Bruce Tognazzini says: When children sitting in front seats of cars were killed by airbags, the experts decreed that children henceforth shall sit in special chairs in the back. Problem: out of sight too often leads to out of mind; … Continue reading →

From the mailbox: P.P.S. Google’s spelling correction is getting pretty powerful. I typed “alyssa milano” and it responded “Did you mean alyssa milano nude?” It didn’t work for me.