October 2008
56 posts
“Don Miguel Asín Palacios had intense black eyes, fine hands; photographs did not...”
– Wikipedia
“Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxi...”
– George Burns
“A mentsh tracht, un Gott lacht (Man toils and God laughs.)”
“The Canadian French term for moose is orignal, which comes from Basque oreina...”
– Language Log
“As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be glad of an...”
– Benjamin Franklin
“More than a dozen years ago I heard a nice definition of “legacy”;...”
– ongoing
“# The worst is yet to come.
# The next few weeks and months are going to have...”
– Nouriel Roubini
“The great Calvin Coolidge once said that “the business of America is business.”...”
– John McCain’s last chance | The Economist
“In that same spirit of looking backwards for lessons we can use better to...”
– Scenarios and Strategy
“A man goes to see his Rabbi.
“Rabbi, something terrible is happening...”
– via Tim Daneliuk
“National City Corp announced this morning that it plans to cut 4,000 jobs as...”
– Dealbreaker
“Flash storage. I really wish I could talk about this some more (pesky NDAs), but...”
– Don MacAskill
Shaping of Polar Zonohedron - Geometry of 30 St.... →
“In recent years, zonohedra have for example begun to find their way into...”
– Wolfram Blog : Russell Towle: 1949–2008
“On another occasion, at LaGuardia, in New York, the transportation-security...”
– The Things He Carried - The Atlantic
(November 2008)
“I don’t see Ruby really diving into the Enterprise either where...”
– Ruby’s vocal minority
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30 St. Mary's Axe
This is mildly complicated:
The Provisional IRA (the Provos!) bombed the City of London years ago, causing GBP800mm in damages. The bomb was centered (51.5144,-0.081) on St. Mary’s Axe, a small street off of Threadneedle. The street’s name is a conflation of St. Mary’s Parish and a pub that used to have an axe as its symbol. Very English. Pronounced Simmery’s Axe,...
“While John Hobbs’s store has been closed since spring, when The Sunday Times in...”
– The Feud and the Fakes - NYTimes.com
“If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it...”
– Thomas Jefferson
The next big language; Theory, practice, and the... →
Clojure
“I think caring less worked out fine”
– Dave Beckett - Journalblog
“There are an estimated 8,000 foreign militants in Fata, from Arabs to Chechens,...”
– The Spectator
(FATA = Federally Administered Tribal Area, NW Pakistan)
“Someone needs to figure out some good contract structures to support outsourced...”
– ongoing · A Good Time for Agility
“by the way, none of us Norse gods are happy by the removal of attention paid to...”
– WSJ.com : Pastor Delivers Odd Invocation at McCain Rally
“At a McCain event, as the crowd waited for McCain himself to arrive, Pastor...”
– Political Punch
“And I’ve made some estimate that on top of the 300 (billion), $400 billion...”
– Nouriel Roubini — Council on Foreign Relations
“Alas, the rarer the event, the more theory you need (since we don’t...”
– Nassim Taleb
“McCain was again pressed about Obama’s “other-ness” and again...”
– McCain Faces Backlash Over Rabid Crowds
“Real estate is in a free-fall because prices are too high and people borrowed...”
– Inland News
“many of the exotic loan products have a clause where payments adjust...”
– WestsideREmeltdown
“61 percent of Google’s stock options granted to employees are currently under...”
– TechCrunch
“Summerhill has had a less than perfect relationship with the British government,...”
– Summerhill School
“A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose...”
– Greg Mankiw
“To resurrect one of my recurring frustrations: Most airlines still fail to...”
– Ask the pilot - Salon.com
“I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare...”
– Samuel Johnson
“He’s a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.”
– Lyndon Baines Johnson about Gerald Ford 