Wes Phillips

One of the most popular URLs I ever linked to was "The">http://www.wesjones.com/shipbreakers.htm">"The Shipbreakers". Here's more, including pictures of many of the treasures that have been "liberated" from the ships.

This is so cool—the Library of Congress has posted excellent scans of pages from its exhibit of manuscripts from the era when Timbuktu was not synonymous with "as far away from here as you can get." Nine hundred years ago Mali was a flourishing trade center, serving as the entry point for goods from the Mediterranean and exit point for African trade. And, at the height of the Middle Ages, it was a nexis for scholarship and science.

What do Black Sabbath, Wagner's Gotterdammerung, West Side Story, and the theme to The Simpsons have in common? A tritone known as the Devil's interval.

"The question as to who was a better singer, Bon Scott or Brian Johnson, may never truly be resolved. However, our analysis suggests that in terms of affecting efficient decision making among listeners, Brian Johnson was a better singer. Our analysis has direct implications for policy and organizational design: when policy makers or employers are engaging in negotiations (or setting up environments in which other parties will negotiate) and are interested in playing the music of AC/DC, they should
choose from the band’s Brian Johnson era discography."

An eggcorn, as regular readers of The">http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/">The Language Log are aware, is the label given to non-standard reshaping of expressions in common use. Substituting "eggcorn" for "acorn" or "baited breath" for "bated breath," for egg samples.