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Archive for April, 2008

Hoisted from someone else’s comments

Posted in reading on April 10th, 2008 No Comments »

Marc Ambinder comments on the peculiar cadence of the jacket blurbs for Douglas Feith’s new book, to which some wag responds with a suggestion for a similar endorsement. Feith’s book is perfectly rectangular. Its page numbers progress in a pleasing upward sequence. Its evident shortcomings in terms of accuracy are offset by its usefulness in [...]

The moral of this story holds in so many contexts

Posted in slice-o-life on April 7th, 2008 No Comments »

Snipped from a small mailing list. You can use fruit and vegetables’ as a voltaic battery but they could only power something like a small LED bulb, no way would there be enough power to charge an iPod Depends on how many you use… you need to have enough in series to give [...]