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Saturday, August 24, 2002 |
Among other things, Speakeasy
is on a mission to find the most brilliant, charming, effective, over the
top, self-serving, and jive-ass blurbs of each publishing season, and we
hope youll help. And it looks like an interesting magazine,
quite apart from the attractiveness of that mission.
11:34:32 PM 
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SYMBOLS.com purports to be the world's largest online
encyclopedia of graphic symbols! Who am I to argue? [thanks, Myrna!]
10:56:54 PM
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>From the login banner of the Words conference on The Well: Words are created
by error. One kind of these is called ghost words. The most famous of
these perhaps is *dord*, which appeared in the 1934 Merriam-Webster
International Dictionary as another word for density. In fact, it was a
misreading of the scribbled "D or d," meaning that "density" could be
abbreviated either to a capital or lowercase letter. The people at
Merriam-Webster quickly removed it, but not before it found its way into
other dictionaries.
--Bill Bryson, The
Mother Tongue
11:32:40 AM
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Looking around for interesting stuff, I found Teacher Stories an experimental mutli-author blog built to publish teacher stories. You know the stories
that you do not find in the national or local media. I enjoyed what I read today, and I'll be back.
9:12:24 AM
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Hey, why not depose everyone in the county under oath: Did you have sexual intercourse in the period July 2001 through May 2002? With whom? Did you use contraception? And so on.
These rhetorical questions (yes, only rhetorical and, yes, more than a bit sarcastic) prompted by the story Privacy Furor Over Subpoena in Baby's Death, by Adam Clymer (NYT).
Seeking leads in the gruesome killing of a newborn baby in May, the county attorney here has subpoenaed the names of hundreds of women who had pregnancy tests at a local Planned Parenthood clinic. The organization is fighting the subpoena in the Iowa Supreme Court.
Philip E. Havens, the county attorney of Buena Vista County, said the questions had to be asked. I don't know how else you deal with it and conduct an investigation, he said.
Look in here, Mr. Havens. I just told you how. And if you think there is anything wrong with my suggestions, think hard about what that means for the course of investigation you've chosen.
9:03:58 AM
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