I insist: you are a veil!

In the middle of a very unfunny article, I found the following:

Many Somalis were unhappy with the more extreme rules of the Islamic Courts: closing down the cinemas, banning music and insisting women were veils.

That is pretty extreme.

(Note: even with the correct spelling, the sentence is ambiguous. It could mean `they insist that it is true that women wear veils.' But I probably wouldn't have noticed this ambiguity without the typo.)

Texas Tornado

Quang snapped this nice shot of a tornado from his front porch in
Watauga last night.

The white stuff in the foreground is hail.

Don't try this at home kids.

LibraryThing

I've stumbled across a site (actually, linked to courtesy of friends at Language Log) that looks fun for book geeks: LibraryThing. My user name is kuritaro and I've just posted my latest acquisition.

The Neti Pot

I came across this flyer on my last trip to the laundromat, on the same bulletin board as I found "Actual Texans".


Before you go out and buy your very own Neti Pot, click on the picture and look closely at the man's left nostril.

...

Yeah.