I have a gub

Almost functional: Beretta pistol of Lego

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three ways up

Escher’s Relativity in LEGO

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leftovers

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 arms of the Venus de Milo, Mrs Thatcher’s decapitated bonce, numerous ancient Greek noses and fingers, and much much more), I was delighted to acquire Saddam’s feet this week, fresh from the plinth. Hey, don’t knock it. Or, on seconds thoughts, do knock it. That way, there’ll be even more broken pieces for me.

(Did you know that if you set your fingers wrong and try to type “<blockquote>” it can come out “Mbkicjqyite<” ?

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prosody never travels well

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

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

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a marriage of words

Do be-all and end-all always go together? Can something be a be-all but not an end-all, or vice versa?

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did you know that the words frustration and fraud are related?

I can’t get Java working under Mozilla. (sigh) I wonder how I did it once before.

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