Bill Poser at Language Log agrees with me: Greek, not Latin, ought to have been spoken in The Passion. (Cited by Prentiss Riddle in a comment at languagehat.)

Heather Mac Donald: The Diversity Taboo (cited indirectly by Eric Rasmusen)

Shiny! (before Firefly)

Did anyone mark the occasion when Tom Lehrer’s joke about Mozart reached a certain age?

Miss Froy in The Lady Vanishes (1938)

I never think you should judge any country by its politics. After all, we English are quite honest by nature, aren’t we?

One often hears mention of “the greater Boston area”. So how come you never hear of “the lesser Boston area”?

In unrelated news, I misread the headline “Satire is dead” as “[William] Safire is dead” and wondered why Charlie would know or care.

netfilter project was granted a preliminary injunction against Sitecom GmbH

“To my knowledge, this is the first case in which a judicial decision has been decreed on the applicability and the validity of the GNU GPL”, says Dr. Till Jaeger, partner of the Berlin and Munich based law firm JBB Rechtsanwaelte that represented the netfilter/iptables project in the litigation.