http://books.google.com/books?id=CbztMj1gMPYC&lpg=PA228&ots=oJyOloo4GN&dq=william%20tradewell%20leigh%20read&pg=PA227#v=onepage&q=william%20tradewell%20leigh%20read&f=false
The Notorious Alston-Read Duel
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/fashion/21LOVE.html
You can see how things sometimes get confusing.
http://techie-buzz.com/latest-news/wikileaks-pentagon-murder-cover-up.html
http://twitter.com/wikileaks
Wikileaks manages to annoy the US State Department.
http://failblog.org/2010/03/23/childrens-book-fail-3/
http://failblog.org/2010/02/26/childrens-book-fail-2/
Authoring children's books is quite "hard".
[Warning: Adult Content]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honi_soit_qui_mal_y_pense
In an act of chivalry Edward placed the garter around his own leg,
saying "Honi soit qui mal y pense", and the phrase later became the
motto of the Order.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB-fZKE1dn4
Mentos & Carlsberg beer -- better than Diet Coke!
http://online.wsj.com/video/how-wsj-stipple-drawings-are-made/91955BD8-9F31-4E50-AEF1-26A61B3AA2FB.html
How WSJ stipple drawings are made.
http://chicago.straightdope.com/sdc20090820.php
Pittsburgh. The street surveying system in this city — Pittsters
freely admit it — consisted in its entirety of the following: (1)
Follow cow home. (2) Pound stakes. (3) Build street.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/mar/19/evolution-darwin-natural-selection-genes-wrong
"If a geneticist had suggested as recently as the 1990s that a
12-year-old kid could improve the intellectual nimbleness of his or
her future children by studying harder now," writes Shenk, "that
scientist would have been laughed right out of the hall." Not so now.
http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/the-quarterback-and-the-professor/
I still recall wincing when he got sacked during one tough game.
Then, a few days later I saw him in class, with his arm in a sling and
his speech slightly slurred. I assumed the slurring came from pain
killers he was taking for the shoulder injury. Sling or not we pushed
on, deeper into the beautiful structure of complex analysis.
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