“That’s the primary function of the apostrophe–to expose apostrophe ignorance.”

Amazing mathematical art.

Woo-hoo! We’re number 2!

“It was the most astonishing thing I’ve ever seen in Washington. Joshua Bell was standing there playing at rush hour, and people were not stopping, and not even looking, and some were flipping quarters at him!”

Amazing tools for visualizing trends in world development.

…you would probably hate books.

“I encourage you to do your own research and come to your own conclusions based on my premise that the government is lying to you and that your disagreement with said premise constitutes your admission of being a sheep.”

“To many baseball fans the game has been ruined — hallowed records toppled, managers playing less small ball as they wait for that three-run homer. But the blame shouldn’t be placed on pills, needles and balms. The true culprit is expansion.”

Colby Cosh addresses the unconscionable lack of a single word to describe James Surowiecki’s “wisdom of crowds” concept with his submission: plurisapience.

Big news: According the the Wall Street Journal, EMI will announce plans Monday to sell much of its catalogue without DRM. Unfortunately the article’s behind the subscription wall and it hasn’t shown up yet on Factiva.

Terence Tao again: “In trying to come up with a classical conceptual model in which to capture these non-classical phenomena, we eventually hit upon using the idea of using computer games as an analogy.”