Roads Gone Wild: a traffic engineer discovers that, in some circumstances, if you design the road right, you can actually make it safer by removing signs, lane lines, curbs and the like. The comments at Photomatt.netare interesting as well.
The History of Mathematical Symbols. Some of them are more recent than you might think.
Top 10 cheesiest movie lines—though they should probably be renamed the top 10 high profile cheesy movie lines. I think “I’m just the cook” in Under Siege (or was it the sequel?) is at least the equal of “No, I’m a postman” in cheese level. And once you get into the realm of B movies, there’s a wealth of cheese to be found.
Ursula Le Guin doesn’t like what Skiffy did to the Earthsea books. She really doesn’t like it She really, really doesn’t like it. She really, really, really doesn’t like it. And she’s not alone.
Daniel Handler, however, seems okay with the screen adaptation of his books.
Oh man, I can’t understand why “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” didn’t get top billing. I guess, “I’m just a postman” is just too much competition.
Now’s the point where I have to admit I somehow missed Dirty Dancing, and I had to look up the phrase. Even worse, there are so many pages that quote it, I had to go through at least 10 to find the origin.
And I just received this comment response *today*. Herm? Somebody broke the mail server.
Wow… I think 2.5 years has got to be the record for “stuck in the mail queue.”