A post on an email list pointed me to Book Blog’s Gender Genie which seeks to analyse texts and calculate whether they’re written by men or women. My experiments with it so far have yielded results that are far from accurate. But of more interest was the fact that it offers three ‘genres’: fiction, non-fiction, and blog entry.
The Guardian is carrying an article suggesting that airlines may need to require travellers to the US to check-in five hours before take-off in order to get through new security checks. I wish I could be more surprised than I am. While this is likely (hopefully) an exaggeration on the part of the airlines, it coincides neatly with our discovery that the fiance visa process changed again yesterday (more on that here or at Kari’s blog when we know the implications).