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Copycat
Bwahahaha. An article on Wikipedia I wrote three years ago was tagged as a copyright infringement, because the same text was on someone else's website. As is usually the case, they copied me, not the other way around; someone else checked it out before I saw the notice ( Read more... ) -
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?: 2007 book poll
Since all the LibraryThingers are doing it, the 2007 book poll. I only started actually keeping track in October and I don't actually own most of the books I read, so I'm sure I've forgotten many, and a few from 2006 may have slipped onto the list. But it's close enough for an end-of-year poll. Starred entries are re-reads. I'm kind of surprised by ( Read more... ) -
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About to do the round of holiday calls to my family. It occurs to me that since my grandmother passed away this summer, there's no one I have to be sure to call early, before their bedtime... -
Coincidences
I usually take a book to the gym with me (because half an hour not going anywhere is otherwise tedious); this last time, Micromotives and Macrobehavior, by Thomas Schelling. Which turns out, with its library-reinforced binding, not to lay open very well on the elliptical machine's magazine rack, so I grabbed something else from the primarily- ( Read more... ) -
The most valuable children's book I ever read
...was Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School, by Louis Sachar ( Read more... ) -
Update
I did not write sonnets for con law, but only because I got wrapped up in an outside research project (that, um, kept me up until 4 am the night before my con law exam...). Perhaps next time! -
Yes, I would ask the Wizard for a brain
One of the recent headlines on Slashdot is "Warner Bros. to Turn All 15 Oz Books Into Movies".
Which sounds kind of cool. But the first thing I thought was "why are the 15-ounce books special?" -
Wikimedia elections
If you are eligible to vote in the elections for the Wikimedia board of trustees, please consider voting. The board is responsible for high-level direction and oversight of the Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia.
The candidate presentations are here. As my own interim appointment expires this month, I am among them. Questions about why I'm ( Read more... ) -
Whee!
Because I never use my lj, but some things I don't know where else to put...
Greg playing with taking high-speed pictures, and me playing in the street.
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