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Now that the Personal Computer has replaced the typewriter, the US State Department is switching from their time honored official type face/font of Courier New 12 to Times New Roman 14.  Link. [abc.net.au]

...Well I found it interesting anyway.

Earlier tonight I was reading The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard. The play opens with the protagonist, the famous scholar and poet A.E. Housman, having a conversation with Charon as he is being faired across the river Styx. The question comes up, who is it that most people first go see when they arive in Hades ( Read more... )

Few are granted the honor by fate of a grand death. Alexander The Great died after falling off his horse in a drunken stupor. Most deaths are just as mundane and few leave behind as great of a legacy. You might nod off at the wheel and die in a car crash or maybe have a heart attack while climbing a flight of stairs. Odds are you will not die ( Read more... )

I make the drive from Wetumpka to Montgomery quite often, and on this trip I always pass a billboard with a large picture of handcuffs that reads ( Read more... )

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is mighty good.

That is all. Now go read it!

The motherfucker should have died like Hitler!

This crazy Japanese guy beat Super Mario Brothers III in 11 minutes. You have to see this! [18.4 megs]

Sunday in an interview, when ask his mood Lithuanian President Rolandas Paksas declared: "I'm calm as a Belgian." It is unknown how the phase arose, and although it is little known in the rest of the would, the phrase is quite popular in Lithuania. One Belgian committed that he had never heard of the phase, but would consider it a complement.    ( ( Read more... )

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