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["Alan MacHett" <machett AT ibiblio.org>]

In the absence of penguin baseball and cutesy flash videos, I thought I'd
entertain myself today by following links off into the ether.  Thusly I
found these interesting tidbits:

  The problem with defending the purity of the English language
  is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't
  just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages
  down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets
  for new vocabulary.
       -- James D. Nicoll
[ROTFL]

  The history of googol and a program to print a googolplex:
  http://www.fpx.de/fp/Fun/Googolplex/
[This is where my wanderings began.  In O'Reilly's _Spidering Hacks_,
there is a reference to the trademark of Google.  I have to wonder about
that.  I know the correct term for the number 10^100 is 'googol', but I
know for certain that people have been spelling and using it as 'google'
for decades.  So where does that leave the trademark?]

  And here's a site to better help you understand really big numbers:
  http://pages.prodigy.net/jhonig/bignum/indx.html


....yeah, I know; the list is slow lately.  /shrug/

;)
Alan