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10/20/2005: "HTML O' the day"

Apparently, God likes dogs.


Astrology coming soon to a science class near you.


It's a big ad!


As new immigrants arrive in already diverse neighborhoods, the
language they embrace isn't always English. Honduran cooks learn
Mandarin. Mexican clerks learn Korean. Most often, people learn
Spanish.

After all, you don't find many Chinese academics on Taiwan
studying and writing about Yiddish.

[JOTD:
A tourist from Israel strolls into a Jewish deli. To his surprise,
the man behind the counter is Chinese. To his greater surprise,
the counterman addresses him in perfect Yiddish. Too stunned
to comment, the tourist places his order and they make small
talk about the weather. The tourist can't get over the guy's
perfect fluency and inflection -- a shrug here, a "nu" there.

As he pays for his order, he asks the cashier how in the world
they found a Yiddish-speaking Chinese man.

"Not so loud!" says the cashier. "He thinks we're teaching him
English!" -- Andy Lee]


There's a rumble in Brighton tonight
Ringside seats for the neighborhood fight,
There ain't a Godddamn thing that the cops can do,
There's a rumble in Brighton tonight.
-- Stray Cats


"My goal is to do all of the work it takes to be explaining to
the Supreme Court in 2025 why broadcasting is unconstitutional."
...
"Engineers want people to be good," Faulhaber says. "Economists
assume everybody is bad. And guess what? We're right."



... until there's an Alaskan brown bear riding shotgun and, man,
he is really ticked.


Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco
consumer privacy group, said it had cracked the code used in a
widely used line of Xerox printers, an invisible bar code of
sorts that contains the serial number of the printer as well as
the date and time a document was printed.


She set out to measure precisely how nuts we've all become.


Does Mr. Reinhardy like this trend? Oh no, he does not.