Category Archives: general

Blind? Can’t stand dogs? Get a mini horse. (Found at B3TA, to which in turn I was referred by Bruce Baugh.)

The Strange Tale of Unlucky Luciano (washingtonpost.com). It happened to me, too – partly. Born to American parents in Italy, I had three birth certificates: two Italian (one since lost) and one from the US consulate in Venice. One of … Continue reading →

“CanonicalTomes is a volunteer-created, volunteer-administered, and user-contributed database of books or other works which define their respective domains. The hope is that in time, someone approaching a field for the first time, or someone from within the field looking for … Continue reading →

I’ve long been puzzled by some of the 404s that appear in my logs. Does everyone get a steady trickle of requests to POST /cgi-bin/formmail.pl ?

Rumor concerning Yahoogroups: Attention: Owners & Moderators please read Important!!! If you are on other groups, or are a moderator or owner of other groups, please crosspost this notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . Someonehas been joining communities with the nickname YAHOO COMMUNITYMONITOR, and … Continue reading →

I found him! THE MAN IN THIS PICTURE IS BIN-LADEN.

Lately I can’t pick up a bottle of stain-remover without thinking of its advertising slogan: “. . gets out what America gets into.” And I try to imagine nationalistic advertising for mass consumer products in other countries. “At last, a nonprescription analgesic … Continue reading →