Columns of Note
In his column and later in his blog, Zorn has been an early advocate of a few ideas that later caught on and/or attracted notice:
- He may have been the first to advocate the "forever stamp" for U.S. postage in a column in December 1994.
- He was an early promoter of the laser measuring system for first downs in football and laser ball/strike detection in baseball.
- In May 2006, he wrote a column coining "Zorn's Law", stating that, in any debate, the first person to hurl the insult, "get a life!" is the loser. In actions he later admitted to be "whims and stunts", he promoted the "law" on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as if already well known; in a July 2006 followup article, he concluded that Wikipedia's editing process basically works.
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