I know people try and sell just about anything and everything on eBay these days, but this was a first for me. Are you a big fan of aviation and looking for a new place to call home? Screw the townhome with aeronautical memorabilia - buy yourself a 727 Airplane Home!
- Hackers are more like painters than scientists. They are fiddlers, craftsmen, and makers, not analyzers and mathemeticians. Or so argues Paul Graham.
- David Sedaris' most recent writing is online at The New Yorker site. His stuff is good. Reeeeeeead it.
- An ad for the New York Times from 1869. Boy have times changed.
- Chris Custer: "That guy caught masturbating on the side of the road, that wasn't me."
I got to wondering where the phrase "the whole nine yards," came from, so I dug around using Google. All the normal sources turned up via google don't know. Each cites the same theories -- the cloth in a man's suit, the sails on a ship, the cement in a mixer, the fabric in a traditional wedding train -- but no site is willing to argue one over the others. One comment on one of the message boards asserts that the phrase can be tied to World War II fighter pilots firing all 9 yards of ammunition and returning to base empty. The author says John Wayne used the phrase in a 1942 war movie, Flying Tigers.
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