Monthly Archives: April 2003

QotD

Posted on Saturday, 2003 April 19 by Anton

G K Chesterton: The Uses of Diversity, 1921 Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

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CRfH

Posted on Saturday, 2003 April 19 by Anton

I’m enjoying Maritza Campos’s comic strip College Roomies from Hell!!! (beginning of archives) a lot more than expected; like several of my favorite strips, it started out rather mundane but soon went engagingly weird.

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I have a gub

Posted on Wednesday, 2003 April 16 by Anton

Almost functional: Beretta pistol of Lego

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three ways up

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 April 15 by Anton

Escher’s Relativity in LEGO

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leftovers

Posted on Sunday, 2003 April 13 by Anton

One Victor Lewis Smith (or possibly Lewis-Smith), to whom I followed a link for a completely unrelated reason, proudly reports: AS curator of the Museum Of Heads And Limbs That Are Missing From Statues In Other Museums (we have the … Continue reading →

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prosody never travels well

Posted on Saturday, 2003 April 12 by Anton

Geoffrey Nunberg alerts us that in Arabic both Iraq and Qatar are accented on the first syllable. I wonder why we got it wrong. (Link from languagehat)

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propaganda for dummies

Posted on Saturday, 2003 April 12 by Anton

David Hardy catalogs deceptions in Bowling for Columbine. (Link from Bruce Baugh)

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