"Last month, the violinist Hilary Hahn played a short Bach program at [Poisson Rouge], and, just as she launched in to the Chaconne in D minor, a plate of nachos arrived at my table. It seemed a sacrilege to eat anything during such a work, least of all nachos. I remembered, though, that for some years Bach ran a weekly concert series at ( Read more... )

"The Elements of Typographic Style recommends the more concise spaced en dash - like so - and argues that the length and visual magnitude of an em dash 'belongs to the padded and corseted aesthetic of Victorian typography.'"

-Wikipedia

had some good names for the recent weather:

• Snowpocalypse
• Snowmageddon
• the Snownami
• Snow Child Left Behind
• President Barack Snowbama

and my personal favorite,

• the confirmation of Judge Sonia Snowtomayor

Any more good ones?

Slate: Buzz=Wave=Talk=Latitude. WTF?

get on me now
drive the crazy show
I will tell you how
-the magnetic poetry on my fridge

Or maybe what you might call an anti-illusion: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/sine-wave-speech/pop-out.mp3

The first and third parts are identical (which you can easily prove to yourself with a second listen).

"We are the Knights Who Say ∋!"

Anyone know of a way I can search the titles of Wikipedia articles for a regular expression?

1/24/10: Amtrak to Alderson
Skiing, helping parents with technology
1/29/10: United Airlines to Boston
Visting Bostonians, eating delicious meat
2/1/10: Amtrak/NJTrans to Princeton

The most excellent comedie and tragical romance of the Two Gentlemen of Lebowski.

And it's being performed in NY this spring!