Friday, 04/26/02

Today I discovered the word "bonafied". I'm in awe. Bona fide is terribly static, but anything can aspire to bonafication. It doesn't matter whether it's intentional or not, it's a great word.

Those of you who enjoyed the JWZ threading algorithm will want to take a look at Warren Sack's Conversation Map, also new to me today via bonafier Patrick Beard. I've had idle noodlings about the utility of tracing quoted text back to its original sources, but Sack runs hard with it, like Tom Hanks in that movie about the lucky idiot and the girl with AIDS.

In other news, my favorite waltz. 11:24PM «

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