You're doubtless thinking of Asimov's autobiographical In Joy Still Felt. In chapter 11, Asimov recounts an anecdote from the 1959 Worldcon about Ellison and a beautiful fan named Djinn Faine:
Harlan Ellison, who was still quite thin, and shorter than he seems to be now (no elevator shoes, perhaps), came up to her to ask for a dance and said, with a humility I have never heard from him, either before or since, "I suppose you wouldn't be interested in dancing with a little vonts like me."
"I would be delighted to dance with you," said Djinn, with perfect courtesy, and off they went, dancing delightfully.
For all I know this was the occasion that inspired the undoubtedly apocryphal story that Harlan once went up to a gorgeously stacked woman and said, in his customary direct manner, "What would you say to a little f---?"
And the woman looked down at him and said, "I would say, 'Hello, little f---.'"
Chebyshev did give a proof of O(n/log n) which is considerably simpler than that of the full prime number theorem; however, it's still not "simple" by most standards. It can be found in, e.g., Hardy & Wright's An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers.
Not entirely. It's essentially a synonym for "unlawful combatant", a term for persons engaged in hostile activities without having the legal right to do so; see the Wikipedia article. (Neither term is used in either the Geneva or Hague conventions, though.)
But in that case, they should at least compensate the Copts for the pigs. (They aren't doing so.) The official excuse is that the pig farmers can just sell the meat, but good luck trying to do that when there's going to be a glut on the market.
Apparently he was just annoyed by the fact that the hydrofoil owner hadn't asked his permission first! In another letter, to a lady who asked whether she could name her herd of bulls after Rivendell, he wrote the following:
I am honoured by your letter, and quite willing that you should use the name of Rivendell as a herd prefix, though in my ignorance I don't think the actual valley of Rivendell would have been suitable for herd breeding. I should be interested to hear what names you eventually choose (as individual names?) for your bulls; and interested to choose or invent suitable names myself if you wish. The elvish word for 'bull' doesn't appear in any published work; it was MUNDO.
And he actually went to the trouble of making up Elvish names for bulls and sending them to her in a later letter. He seems to have had, well, strong feelings about being kept out of the loop when anyone made any use of his work; but as I said, it's hard to make out whether or not he'd have objected to such things being done after his death.
OTOH Tolkien was very protective of his copyrights during his own lifetime; he once complained that he couldn't copyright the name "Shadowfax", to keep it from being used as the name of a hydrofoil! (For anyone who has the published volume of his letters, the relevant one is #258.) And of course, there was his outrage at the Ace pirate edition ("Dealings one might expect of Saruman in his decay rather than from the defenders of the West".) But as you say, it's anyone's guess what he'd think about violation of his copyrights today, now that even "courtesy (at least) to living authors" is no longer at issue.
There appears to be a file named sumatrapdfprefs.dat in the same directory as the executable; despite the extension, it's an ASCII text file and can be directly edited.
I doubt very much that the grandparent is even technically correct. Years ago, a blank book was published under the title of "The Nothing Book" — and when another publisher put out a blank book, there was a copyright lawsuit. But the defense won; at least in the U.S.A., you can't copyright nothing!
Augustus Caesar, I believe. He sometimes talked about restoring the Republic and retiring into private life — and Roman historians were never sure whether or not he was really considering it. See, e.g., section XXVIII of Suetonius's Twelve Caesars.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-do-men-have-nipples
Wondermark also has mouseover text like XKCD's.
The saying wasn't original with Newton, so even if copyright lasts 382 years from the death of the author, you're probably OK!
There already has been.
epidemic!=pandemic
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~etrnsfer/water.htm
That's why Mike Godwin's 18-year retrospective on Godwin's Law is titled I Seem to be a Verb
http://www.eff.org/issues/anonymity
Asimov adds that "vonts" is Yiddish for "bedbug".
Chebyshev did give a proof of O(n/log n) which is considerably simpler than that of the full prime number theorem; however, it's still not "simple" by most standards. It can be found in, e.g., Hardy & Wright's An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers.
Not entirely. It's essentially a synonym for "unlawful combatant", a term for persons engaged in hostile activities without having the legal right to do so; see the Wikipedia article. (Neither term is used in either the Geneva or Hague conventions, though.)
But in that case, they should at least compensate the Copts for the pigs. (They aren't doing so.) The official excuse is that the pig farmers can just sell the meat, but good luck trying to do that when there's going to be a glut on the market.
And he actually went to the trouble of making up Elvish names for bulls and sending them to her in a later letter. He seems to have had, well, strong feelings about being kept out of the loop when anyone made any use of his work; but as I said, it's hard to make out whether or not he'd have objected to such things being done after his death.
OTOH Tolkien was very protective of his copyrights during his own lifetime; he once complained that he couldn't copyright the name "Shadowfax", to keep it from being used as the name of a hydrofoil! (For anyone who has the published volume of his letters, the relevant one is #258.) And of course, there was his outrage at the Ace pirate edition ("Dealings one might expect of Saruman in his decay rather than from the defenders of the West".) But as you say, it's anyone's guess what he'd think about violation of his copyrights today, now that even "courtesy (at least) to living authors" is no longer at issue.
There appears to be a file named sumatrapdfprefs.dat in the same directory as the executable; despite the extension, it's an ASCII text file and can be directly edited.
Two girls, one vial?
Or simply viewing it online.
Bumblebees.
It was Randall Munroe who said it — and look at what his mouseover text says.
Direct link to the revcanonical website. It really is "rev" rather than "rel"; evidently this attribute is an HTML 5 proposal which hasn't been accepted, or so it says at http://benramsey.com/archives/a-revcanonical-rebuttal/
I use URL shortening all the time on Usenet (where line lengths are supposed to be kept below 80 characters).
I doubt very much that the grandparent is even technically correct. Years ago, a blank book was published under the title of "The Nothing Book" — and when another publisher put out a blank book, there was a copyright lawsuit. But the defense won; at least in the U.S.A., you can't copyright nothing!
Augustus Caesar, I believe. He sometimes talked about restoring the Republic and retiring into private life — and Roman historians were never sure whether or not he was really considering it. See, e.g., section XXVIII of Suetonius's Twelve Caesars .
Try googling "Jessica Logan" instead — she hanged herself as a result of a similar incident.