Jun. 2nd, 2005

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Hume paid great attention to the English language, and by the time he died had come to write it with much facility and creditable accuracy.
- Augustine Birrell, Essays on Men, Women and Books


The snark, it burns...
sigmonster: Highly zoomed in portion of a Julia set (a fractal image in the complex plane). (Default)
Well, that's mildly annoying. The 2007 pound coin will have the Gateshead Millenium bridge on the reverse. It ought to have been the Humber Bridge, which really is iconic.

(This year's coin design has the Menai Straits bridge, 2006 has the Egyptian Arch bridge in Nothern Ireland.)

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