winter correction

• Astro Teller as born with a normal name, and his grandfather was involved in the Manhattan project, not his father.
• Thomas Crapper's name is merely an aptonym, not the actual origin of the word.
• Black and Decker didn't go out of business in 2009; they were purchased by Stanley and continue somewhat independently.
• Trader Vic's is a chain and there are plenty of them left. The original moved to Emeryville.
• The moon is about 240 thousand miles away.

• Zaha Hadid was a neo-futurist, not a structural expressionist, which is quite distinct.

• Mountain View has a Mediterranean climate, supposedly.

more people confusion

• I listen to two podcasts regularly from NPR, Planet Money and All Songs Considered, and somehow confused Stephen Thompson with one of the correspondents on Planet Money.
  
• Heath Ledger did win for Best Supporting Actor in 2008, the middle of a triplet of villains - 2007 was Javier Berdem as Anton Chigur and 2009 was Christoph Waltz as Col. Landa.
  

corrections

• The Oliver Sacks article is The Bull on the Mountain
• Cuisse means thigh.

Corrections

• While naturalized citizens take an oath renouncing previous allegiances, this does not have any force of law. Unless you are in one of several very rare situations, the US government will not care about your other citizenships.
• Ruby came out in 2007.

corrections

• Chick Corea (note the spelling) was a member of Miles Davis' band.
• Graham Chapman, the only Graham in the group, is the only deceased member of Monty Python.
• Greek Easter follows the Gregorian calendar, not the Julian calendar. While the last few years this has put Greek Easter off by a week from Western orthodox Easter, this year it is off by five weeks.

• Mercury is not tidally locked with the Sun.
• HashMap does return values in a deterministic order across different JREs.
• The debussy song is correctly titled 'Claire de Lune', which means moonlight.

rather embarassing all around, really

• It is, in fact, a yellow wood in which two roads diverged. 
• Pastrami is made with beef.
• The third milk is evaporated milk.
• The earth tilts more than 3 times as many degrees as I said.

corrections

• The commanders of the Babylon Five were Jeffrey Sinclair and John Sheridan. The series creator was Joseph Michael Straczinsky.
• The article I was thinking of was about cyclists, not runners.
• I also confused Clipper City with Rogue. I bet the Clipper City guy would be upset with me about that.
• The book was Cat's Cradle.

• Turkish delight is commonly served coated in chocolate.
• Somehow, 97% of the worlds vanilla beans (not vanillan) comes from Madagascar.
• Deconvolute is totally the word for that. 
• Similarly, I was thinking of hermetic, not hermeneutic (a principle of interpretation, and not even an adjective).
• My keyboard only has 56 keys.