Wednesday, October 13, 2004
- [James] Lileks for Senate?
- Dream project for lawyers-to-be? A University of Pennsylvania Law School student seminar group has been tapped to write a new criminal law code for the Republic of Maldives. The catch? Some scholars, like controversial professor Daniel Pipes, are not pleased because the island nation's existing (and future) statutes are based on Islamic Shariah law
- Old-fashioned black-and-white engraving-style animal clip art
- Douglas Adams'"Babel Fish" device (no, not the Altavista® translator, the real stick-it-in-yer-ear type) comes one step closer to reality with a cell-phone based real-time English/Japanese spoken language translator [New Scientist]