Link Buffet

[cjsmith]

(I'd say smorgasbord but I'm too lazy to go find the right character to cut and paste.)

Terri Schiavo's summary autopsy report, courtesy dafydd

Kodak to Discontinue Black-And-White Paper, courtesy indyansel

Korean scientists use stem-cell therapy to successfully cure a woman who has been paralyzed for two decades, courtesy takhisis

The Economist article on "the global housing boom", courtesy joedecker

Comments

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I'd say smorgasbord but I'm too lazy to go find the right character to cut and paste.

You mean the empty set? Is that the one in that word? ;-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that one. :)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I knew a Dane in college of whom I asked the question once what that symbol means, and his response was, "It means 'you can't pronounce this!'" So it truly is the empty set, even linguistically. :-)

Oh, you just fed a kink of mine!

[rampling.livejournal.com]

I can't help myself; I always obsess about such characters when I run into them. I even have a table of them in my Palm for handy reference. Now I see that I can also obsess over them when someone else runs into them! I'm incorrigible!

This HTML character code reference page (http://www.tntluoma.com/sidebars/codes/) gives: ø => ø

OK, now the wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smorgasbord) informs me that the correct spelling is smørgåsbord. (had to dig up the å too!)