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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Famous quotes containing the words columns of, columns and/or note:
“We are a race of tit-men, and soar but little higher in our intellectual flights than the columns of the daily paper.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.”
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“No, in your rural letter box
I leave this note without a stamp
To tell you it was just a tramp
Who used your pasture for a camp.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)