12.1. Hacks 95-100: Introduction

12.1. Hacks 95 100: Introduction

Even the most well-planned categorization scheme needs one last bucket called Other. As Jorge Luis Borges famously wrote:

These ambiguities, redundancies, and deficiencies recall those attributed by Dr. Franz Kuhn to a certain Chinese encyclopedia entitled Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. On those remote pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.

These are hacks that didn't fit anywhere else. That is not to say that they are trivial or unimpressive. Trust me, I've saved the best for last.