Kill Duck Before Serving:

This correction from the New York Times is hilarious:

Because of an editing error, a front-page article yesterday about diplomatic developments in the Iraq crisis misidentified the Bush administration official who said about the weapons inspectors in Iraq, "At some point it will become obvious that it's time for them to go." It was an administration official speaking on condition of anonymity, not Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser

Hmm:

I wish our t.v. worked. Then I could watch Jeopardy too....

I was relieved the other day to find out that all hope is not lost. For a while, I had been doing better than the people on Jeopardy. Granted, it was the teen competition, but still... Now, while I am no simpleton, I am nowhere near the ranks of Myron Meyer or Ben Sternberg (don't worry, I looked those up). My faith has not been shaken, though.

I realize a million different factors affect their performance, and that if I were up there, some of them would have lower scores, some of them would answer questions before me... but surely you've done it from time to time. Anyway, after that eerie week of success, I am glad to proclaim that I finished Double Jeopardy with a score of something along the lines of -$10,000.

Alakazam:

Eugene Voloh has a long and good post about understanding rationality. The gist: means can be irrational, but ends cannot be. I don't understand what he has against green peppers though. They're yummy, crisp, fresh, and relatively robust to mistreatment (which has considerable weight when you're buying your Winter produce on the south side of Chicago).

Meta redux:

On the subject of self-reference, the ACLU is suing on behalf of students forbidden from forming an ACLU group at their Louisiana High School. The students challenge the school's requirement that they publish their membership, which seems like it could go either way (it probably depends on the facts, which I don't have in full), as well as requirements about the editing and publication of their minutes that seem somewhat bizarre. They also-- most interestingly-- challenge more generally the school's requirement for a voluntary faculty sponsor:

Although the ACLU has no objection to a faculty monitor being present at club meetings on campus to ensure compliance with the Equal Access Act, the ACLU said that the requirement that the monitor be voluntary is damaging to clubs that are looked upon unfavorably by school supervisors.

Google:

While we're being self-referential and scary, but in keeping with our general principle of talking about Google (itself a form of net-self-reference), Google has bought Blogger. And I've noticed more trouble the past few days in accessing big sites, like The Volokh crowd or How Appeaking. (sigh). Hopefully this isn't a sign of what's to come.

Moving up:

Hmm. We've been blogrolled by the ubiquitous How Appealing. The pressure is on. Granted this is true of 150-300 other blogs, but with 1,000,000 registered blogger users . . . the only problem is that I'm not very interesting. We need to make Jonathan post. Tell him so.