“On a big news day, Wikipedia functions like a massive, cooperative blog — except that where most blogs’ function is to sieve news accounts through the filter of strong opinion, Wikipedia’s goal is the opposite: it strives to filter all the opinion out of it.

“I can watch a Lifetime movie with a cast full of white people and cry because I’m conditioned to relate to you. But you are not conditioned to relate to me. You, especially this group who thinks you’re so politically correct, you cannot watch a movie with people with brown skin and see yourself.

“500 to 1000 different species of bacteria live in the human body. Bacterial cells are much smaller than human cells, and there are about ten times as many bacteria as human cells in the body.

“Duane LeGate arranges quick sales for home owners in distress. He claims he can predict where markets will go bad by looking at the traffic on his Web site.

“Using the camera frame as the “stage” was an innovation of the Muppets. Previously on television, there would typically be a stage hiding the performers, as if in a live presentation.

“Now that Warne is retired from the international scene and the media seem content to let him lead a peaceful existence, it’s become obvious his celebrity was mostly related to his genius as a cricketer.

“The probables for India’s Twenty20 campaign not only include Irfan Pathan but also his elder brother Yusuf.

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

“It used to be a fun trick to go through pg’s essays and look for axed ideas in comments. Too bad it doesn’t work here.

“Javascript does stuff, HTML displays stuff. When you want the browser to do things (instead of merely displaying dumbly what it receives) and when these things themselves involve a lot of displaying, you end up writing HTML through Javascript. It’s a little like writing French through English (André went to Marie and said: ”Bonjour! Ça va, ma chérie?”) and just as frustrating, particularly because you sometimes have to narrate whole scenes in French (pidgin tends to be painfully verbose)..