The NY Times has gotten into the whole Google Maps mashup craze with this map identifying every murder committed between 2003 and 2005. Between 2003 and 2005, 1,662 murders were committed in New York. Men and boys were responsible for 93 percent of the murders; their victims tended to be other men and boys; and [...]
I feel a pain in my chest every time I see someone trying to do work in Internet Explorer. It is like watching someone try to walk with their shoelaces tied together. But I bite my tongue because I know people won’t change unless they want to change. Still, there are some people who simply [...]
Having never served on a jury, my knowledge mostly comes from the movie, “12 Angry Men“. But I’ve always found the instructions given to juries fairly odd. They seem to imply a very strange idealized notions of language, thought, and discourse that have no bearing on reality. It is as if they were written by [...]
Recently some latino celebrities recorded a Spanish language version of the American national anthem, leading president Bush to state: I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English, and they ought to learn to sing the National Anthem in English. This led Eric Bakovic at Language Log to [...]