September 2010
9 posts
“Observers say, however, that no development contributed more dramatically to the...”
– Man, screw off you old snob. English is one of the most vibrantly living languages in the world and you think typos, eggcorns, and idioms are going to kill it (or already have). If you want to argue that standards of writing are dead, go ahead, but this language of ours is alive and kicking.
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O Magazine: No Science, Thanks →
Harriet Hall, aka SkepDoc, recounts her brief misadventure as a columnist for Oprah’s magazine.
Reading Arabic is Hard →
What’s funny is I was just thinking about this the other day, only I was thinking about the right-to-left versus left-to-right issue. This is about how hard the letters are to discern. Anyway, neat!
Crazy Weirdo Attacks Discovery Channel →
A man tried and ultimately failed to hijack a cable network today. He wanted the Discovery Channel to switch from promoting sharks and the testing of urban legends to convincing everyone to stop eating, breeding, and moving. Now he is dead.