Philology and science, again

I’m still disinclined to trust textual criticism for the most part, but this study is the sort of thing that could convince me: a mathematical analysis of the validity of the principle of lectio difficilior.

Impossible to please

John Gruber gets exactly how I feel about computers: “Real Mac users, to me, are people with much higher standards, impossibly high standards, and who use Macs not because they’re great, but because they suck less than everything else.”