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Mary Anne wrote that Emerson "stuck another word in the midst of 'whatsoever' -- i.e., 'what difficulty soever' or 'what...

Pakistani man sues United Airlines for refusing to let him fly, according to this article in the San Francisco Chronicle....

I've been hearing about this, or variants on it, for a while, but it's only just been made available to...

November, it seems, is National Novel Writing Month. The folks at NaNoWriMo (as they call it) encourage people to sign...

Cute fake eBay auction of one (1) ass-kicking. Seller will visit buyer's house and kick their ass. Good to know...

Like, omigod! Wil Wheaton (yes, as in Wesley Crusher from ST:TNG) not only has a journal/Weblog (at that site—sample: "something...

Samsung SDI is working on OLED displays—Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. I know nothing about OLEDs besides what it says in this...

The OED reveals, as far as we can tell, that Islam is cognate with salaam but not actually derived from...

At least two sources in the past few days have indicated that the word Islam derives from the word salaam,...

Long but fascinating New York Times article describing the thoughts and opinions of various Muslims in Gaza, Cairo, and Hamburg...

I keep meaning to note that I will be cleaning up the interface for this at some point. The show-all-entries-for-a-given-day...

My computer clock was heading toward 2 a.m., and then suddenly it was 1 again. So it's not that late...