Amazon.com announced today the availability of a new service. “Search Inside the Book” allows you to search the full text of 120,000 books, in addition to conventional searching by title, subject, and author.
Posted on October 23rd, 2003 by Nils
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The director of my favorite movie is dead at the age of 94.
Elia (“Gadg”) Kazan was not an uncontroversial figure. He cooperated with the House Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities in 1952, naming the names of a handful of people with whom he had been a member of the Communist Party. He subsequently received five […]
Posted on October 16th, 2003 by Nils
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After I posted my linguistic curiosities, I googled the words I thought I had coined. It turns out that one of my heroes, the incorrigible punster Richard Lederer, had been there before me. But he gives a different meaning to ‘contranym’ than I do.
Posted on October 15th, 2003 by Nils
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It’s becoming a problem for you; admit it. You’re checking jonssons.org thirty or forty times per hour just to see if we’ve served up anything new to slake your thirst for incisive commentary, poignant verse, rapier wit.
Give your mousing finger a rest and use a news aggregator.
Posted on October 7th, 2003 by Nils
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Imagine playing a game for money in which marbles are drawn out of a bag and then replaced. 60% of the marbles are white. If one of the white marbles is drawn out, you win whatever you risked. The other 40% are blue. If one of the blue marbles is drawn, then you lose whatever […]
Posted on October 6th, 2003 by Nils
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