[bip] Blog post on bioinformatics and Python

[Erich Schwarz]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Kevin Teague wrote:

> > the list has been awfully quiet lately.  Here's something to
> > stir up the rabble:
>
> I believe the correct phrasing is to "stir up the pot" and it's
> this action that "rouses the rabble".

    I myself always thought that the correct expression was
"harangue the masses" (e.g., "In this 1927 photograph, Vladimir
Ilyich Lenin harangues the masses").

    At least Lenin didn't have PowerPoint:

    http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/graphics/book_pp_cover.gif


--Erich