links for 2007-10-11

“The Toothbrush mustache was first introduced in Germany by Americans, who turned up with it at the end of the 19th century the way Americans would turn up with ducktails in the 1950s. It was a bit of modern efficiency, an answer to the ornate mustaches of the royal class.”

“Yet “adverb” is the one grammatical category that Ose forgot to include in his list! As it happens, most expletives aren’t genuine adverbs, either.”

On the impending use of ZFS in OS X.

I see the dancer going clockwise. I have to look away and watch in my peripheral vision to make her go counter-clockwise.