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I just stumbled upon my elementary/junior high school’s website:

The fifth grade Math team took first place in the regional math competition. Great job!  

Fifth grade!? Now that’s just ridiculous. At least Ms. Henke’s not the culprit.

An email from Bailey:

I heard Steven Pinker on NPR! Remind me to tell you about it (unless my excitement is not mutual). I wanted to call in and say “thanks so much for making linguistics accessible and interesting to us laypeople, I love the work that you do; my boyfriend recently received his Master’s in linguistics, but the stuff he works on is syntax in Mandarin Chinese, and it’s completely impenetrable.” But I didn’t. <3

Alas, this is the life I live.

Mailplane, the fabulous Mac OS X Gmail client, just reached 1.5.1, including my Japanese localization. My “exotic” (read “non-Roman”) preferences were even featured on the website! While Mailplane is currently in private beta, I have some invites so let me know if you want in. The localization still has a number of quirks, so I would appreciate any feedback along those lines, too.

UPDATE: Also covered in other blogs…