Habeas corpus

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You may not recognize him, but he’s been looking out for you.
Habeas Corpus has never had a very high profile, but for more than 700 years this quiet hero has stood watch over some basic principles of fairness and human dignity. When the Constitution was written, he was there. Since 1215, in fact, he’s been a humble, but unflagging, champion of justice and due process of law. …
Something happened last year, and now Habeas Corpus is missing.
Some time on the morning of October 17, 2006, Habeas disappeared. Eyewitness accounts say he was last seen in Washington, D.C., walking down the Capitol steps in something of a daze. But where he went from there, or where he is now, is anyone’s guess.
The one thing we know for certain is why he went missing. October 17 was the day that Congress let the president declare Habeas Corpus — and other parts of the U.S. Constitution — null-and-void for certain individuals.

No, I don’t think I’ve seen him either. More from the ACLU here.

(Via Boingboing)

Sarkozy subtitles / Untertitel bei Sarkozy

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I’m a bit late on this story of a freelance subtitle translator slipping a joke into the programme (accidentally?)

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This was apparently an American freelance and the subtitles were seen in the USA on April 23:

Le 23 avril, un reportage du journal montre un discours de Nicolas Sarkozy. A un moment, le candidat UMP invite les Français à «s’unir à moi». Ce qui, traduit avec un brin de fantaisie en anglais, donne: «rally my inflated ego» («unissez-vous à mon ego surdimensionné»).

English reports here and here.

A top official with France 2 swiftly blamed the gag on American freelance journalists who play with the translations to amuse each other, including this one that managed to surface on television instead of their PC’s.

None of this explains how you can ‘fire’ or ‘sack’ a freelance.

Via Enig

Golf

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LATER NOTE: My attention has been drawn to this poetic description of some holes (apparently regular players were each invited to describe their favourite):

Ein unbeschreibliches Gefühl des Glücks steigt in einem auf, sobald der Abschlag des 10. Loches betreten wird. Der Rundblick, der sich von hier aus auf die Voralbberge und die Täler der Fils, Lauter und des Reichenbaches bietet, gibt jedem ein Gefühl der Weite und Schönheit unserer Heimat.

This is not golf as I remember it, the game where the angrier you got with the ball, the worse your score became, and looking at the view was quite out of the question.