wood s lot reminded us to beware of aibohphobia, the fear of palindromes. This Metafilter thread on the occasion of the palindromic date 10-02-2001 has some good ones to be afraid of. My favorite new discovery there: “Rettebs iflahd noces, eh? Ttu, but the second half is better.” Speaking of palindromes and nonsense, 9-11 is palindromic in Roman numerals. Many have noted that there is no natural monicker for the new Day of Infamy coming to mind. We’ve fallen back on referring to the ‘unfortunate events’, the ‘disaster’, the ‘terrorist attacks’, the ‘attacks on America,’ by their date. Should we call it “IXXIMMI”, “ixximmi“? It rhymes with “infamy” too, sort of…