Comments on: Wasilla’s all I saw: the ultimate Palin-drome

By: craig o'donnell

craig o'donnell — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:52:00 +0000

Well, A man a plan … is probably more correctly said of Teddy Roosevelt. If it were a French p-drome, that would be different.

One of my favorites, apropos of not much:

One-eye Eno

(the musical minimalist).

There’s also “Sit on a potato pan,Otis.”

And finally, I’ve defined the term for something that is not a palindrome.

It’s “emordnilap.” Naturally, most sentences are emordnilaps.

By: blaiq

blaiq — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:10:57 +0000

I doubt this has made it to the Wikipedia list:
http://www.word-detective.com/2008/11/20/a-very-angry-palindrome/

By: Karra

Karra — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:32:01 +0000

The Wikipedia article mentions Peter Norvig producing (in Feb 2002) extensions of the Panama palindrome using a program. The approach for such a program and earlier attempts at this style of Palindrome generation (using a dictionary to insert comma separated text in the middle of the original Panama palindrome) are explained in, what I think, is one of the most entertaining programming books of all time – Peter Van der Linden’s Expert C Programming. Deep C Secrets, published in 1994 (http://tinyurl.com/5muwoq)

By: Ashish Banerjee

Ashish Banerjee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:20:27 +0000

Sorry, that should read “on Erasmus” – but I did mention “fog” :-)

By: Ashish Banerjee

Ashish Banerjee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:19:29 +0000

From the fog of my mis-spent youth, I remember: “Sums are not set as a test for Erasamus”

By: Kiff

Kiff — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:58:48 +0000

Crab Canon is a neat piece. We used to play in in the fife & drum corps I belonged to years ago. Very pretty. I’d forgotten it was mentioned in Godel, Escher, Bach.

By: Palin-Drome : clusterflock

Palin-Drome : clusterflock — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:28:51 +0000

[...] Wasilla’s all I saw [...]

By: christopher carfi

christopher carfi — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:00:46 +0000

what i learned today: holoalphabetic sentences are also called pangrams. (of course they are.)

a sensible one with 27 letters:
“Big fjords vex quick waltz nymph.”

(from the wikipedia pangram page)

By: Avman Ahmed

Avman Ahmed — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:08:34 +0000

One holoalphabetic sentence I know is “Five boxing lizards jump quickly into the water.” Unfortunately it has 37 letters, far more than the perfect, 26-letter version.

By: DE

DE — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:36:35 +0000

The wikipedia article reminded me of the crab canon in Gödel, Escher, Bach. I was re-reading bits of that the other day after finising Anathem.