Monthly Archives: January 2003

fun in the courtroom

Posted on Monday, 2003 January 06 by Anton

Se non è vero, è molto ben trovato. No, sir. I mean to swat him [in] the head with it. Pursuant to Rule 32, I may use the deposition “for any purpose” and that is the purpose for which I … Continue reading →

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the balance

Posted on Sunday, 2003 January 05 by Anton

Cloning is quite interesting, to be sure, but have you considered the evil twin problem?

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is a chador the same as a burqa?

Posted on Sunday, 2003 January 05 by Anton

Kathy Kinsley relays a cheering rant from Iran. (Link updated 2004 Oct 06.)

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disguised as a TARDIS

Posted on Sunday, 2003 January 05 by Anton

The BBC has won a legal dispute with Scotland Yard over the trademark of the blue box. (From Plokta)

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and then there’s the Rule of Five

Posted on Saturday, 2003 January 04 by Anton

Just found again, by chance, something that crossed my mind the other day. The author of The Bible Code responded thus in 1997 to the obvious criticism that you can find anything if you massage random data enough: “When my … Continue reading →

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hwæt!

Posted on Friday, 2003 January 03 by Anton

Hrodulf the Red-Nosed Reindeer: An Original Old English Poem Hwæt, Hrodulf readnosa hrandeor– Næfde þæt nieten unsciende næsðyrlas! Glitenode and gladode godlice nosgrisele. . . . . This came to me by mail some weeks ago, with the funny letters mangled beyond my … Continue reading →

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1892

Posted on Friday, 2003 January 03 by Anton

John J. Miller alerts us at The Corner that John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born eleventy-one years ago today. Which reminds me of yet another of my oddball notions. I don’t like the word eleventy-first (or even twenty-first), because the … Continue reading →

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