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• The stars are made of the same atoms as the earth." I usually pick one small topic like this to give a lecture on.
  Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars -- mere gobs of gas atoms....
• No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.
  -- Carl Becke...
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• This is a picture of the British High Command at the beginning of World War I.
  These aren't evil men -- some of them aren't even stupid. -- G. Dyer, in _WAR_...
• But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand.
  Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can tell....
• The following is a letter to the editor of the Atticus City newspaper.
  "Former Mayor Durant owes an apology to the city of Atticus....
• casting the runes n. What a guru does when you ask him or her to run a particular program and type at it because it never works for anyone else
  esp. used when nobody can ever see what the guru is doing different from what J....
• For the moment at least, the Darwinian period is pa
  we can no longer enjoy the comfortable assurance, which once satisfied so many of us, that the main problem has been solved - all is again in the melting pot....
• blinkenlights /blink'*n-li:tz/ n. [common] Front-panel diagnostic lights on a computer, esp.
  a dinosaur. Now that dinosaurs are rare, this term usually refers to status lights on a modem, network hub, or the like....