|gil-ēz| or |gil-is|?

the ‘a’, ‘n’, and ‘h’ in anthony are all silent. (so is the ‘7’, but that is also invisible.) and anthony is usually spelled thony. the ‘e’ in gillies is also silent — someone once told me it’s a scottish thing — but that never affects the spelling.

cia leaks [update]

The good folks at Philosophical Review have informed Kai and me that our paper “CIA Leaks” will be gracing their pages. Once we’ve made a few changes — tiny cosmetic things, mostly — I’ll post a pre-final draft.

I’m also happy to report that googling “cia leaks” turns up more hits than you might expect on the first page that link to our paper rather than to, say, The National Review. I’m all for the semantics of epistemic modals pushing political issues off the front page, but I kind of doubt that will happen.

new look

I’m digging this new theme for Rapidweaver (light), and also some very slick markup/markdown plugins. (This is what happens when Mary goes out of town.)