Swany’s Whey

The Oil Drum: (zeroth law) You must play the game. (first law) You can’t win. (second law) You can only break even on a very cold day. (third law) It doesn’t get that cold.

Language Log: “In re-reading my post on Prof. Fish’s attempt to correct the syntax of an AT&T call center employee, I’m led to wonder whether his cri de coeur (“It is a factual matter as to what is and is not syntactically correct”) is itself syntactically correct… My conclusion is that in his distress, Prof. [...]

Library of Congress: A satire on the fashionable lectures at the Royal Institution, showing Thomas Young(?), doing an experiment, holding Sir J.C. Hippisley by his nose, and applying to his mouth a tube from an apparatus in which a gas has been made.