• Mobile phone chargers to be standardised under EU law
  Hooray!
  (tags: eu )
• If the Prime Minister wants to change the EU, he has to stop making enemies
  ...and also wake up to Germany's real position.
  (tags: eu ukpolitics )
• How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk
  Strangely I appear to be from somewhere near the Gulf Coast.
  (tags: usa linguistics )
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Amused to note this judgement (via Making Light). The name of the judge isn't given but I think I detect the style of our old friend Judge Samuel B. Kent.

Update: No, it seems that this is a different Texan judge with the delightful name of Sam Sparks.

It's a cliche, I know, but Hannah Arendt's phrase about Eichmann was the first thing that crossed my mind when I heard that Radoslav Brdjanin had been sentenced to a 32 year jail sentence by the war crimes tribunal in the Hague. ( Read more... )

I see my old friend David Feige has a piece about fingerprint analysis. Specific to the US, of course, but almost certainly of relevance to the rest of us as well.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/danger_army/9262.html

(Very long; found link via rosefox.)

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