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I've renamed most of the various lists of links found at the bottom of this blog page. Garrulus' Travels — A half-assed attempt at a play on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels . For those who know of my penchant for grammatical correctness (or at least my attempts to be grammatically correct), I use Garrulus' instead of Garrulus's because: 1) Garrulus is Latin, and 2) it's ancient. In fact, it is the Latin form of "garrulous," but I don't use it in the sense of that word's definition ( excessively or tiresomely talkative ). It's meant to be a play on my first name. Saith Strunk and White : 1. Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's . Exceptions are the possessives of ancient proper names [ending] in -es and -is, the possessive Jesus', and such forms as for conscience' sake, for righteousness' sake. Garrulus may not end in -es or -is, but since it is ancient and since it is deliberately being misu...