Monday, June 28, 2004

Medical miracle! Supreme Court shows signs of growing a spine; eyesight returns, allowing it to read the Constitution! In 3 Rulings, Supreme Court Affirms Detainees' Right to Use Courts. Three rulings today amounted to the court's most important statement in decades on the balance between personal liberties and national security. By DAVID STOUT. [The New York Times > Home Page] 3:50:43 PM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

Translate this! This list is actually the top-ten English untranslateables; there's another list of non-English problem words at the source, todaytranslations.com. Top-ten untranslateables. Here's a great census of the ten most untranslateable foreign and English words: 1 plenipotentiary 2 gobbledegook 3 serendipity 4 poppycock 5 googly 6 Spam 7 whimsy 8 bumf 9 chuffed 10 kitsch Link (Thanks, Gerry!) [Boing Boing] 10:03:15 AM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

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