Marlinspike

A handy tool to keep in your grooming box is a "Marlinspike".

Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines 2009

A handy tool to keep in your grooming box is a "Marlinspike".

Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines 2009

Haddock, the explosive, semi-sozzled scion of Marlinspike Hall; Cuthbert Calculus, the nearly deaf genius inventor; Thompson and Thomson, the bumbling identical-twin detectives; and opera diva Bianca Castafiore, aka the Milanese Nightingale, who is the sole female character to recur in Hergé's Tintin stories.

Tintin & Co. Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

The new sidebar graphic--"Your comments feed my blog"--is from Save Our Blogs, but first met at Marlinspike Hall.

365: Back to Work... Fresca 2009

Mr. Limbaugh seems to have said that he wish'd Mrs. Clinton to have cross'd her Legs like a Sailor at his Marlinspike upon the Deck, or a Cavalry Officer taking his ease in an Inn; and further that She were too fat to do it, & that he were by Nature too well-endow'd in his Male Parts to do it.

"I'm jealous. I can't do it either. I can't cross my legs sitting in a chair like that." Ann Althouse 2008

Just like the children in Struwwelpeter, Jan noted: so she wrote A Modern Struwwelpeter in the style of Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales, one poem about each child -- for example, Ruthless Mike and Reckless John, who are beastly to their governess Miss Marlinspike; and Janet, who stares so long at the lovely clothes in the window of Horridge's that she becomes frozen into a wax dummy.

Mrs. Miniver 1939

His ancestral home is Marlinspike Hall, clearly an English stately home, and his ancestors include the British naval hero Sir Francis Haddock.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

With the help of his clever canine sidekick Snowy, Tintin follows clues that take him to the spooky mansion Marlinspike Hall, onto a shabby ocean freighter overrun with thugs, and to a glittering Moroccan palace.

StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

"Remember, the only reason Iran has to go to the lengths they've gone to to get certificates is because they don't have a certificate issuer of their own... most countries can just generate their own," says Moxie Marlinspike, chief technology officer of mobile app developer Whisper Systems, who has discovered serious problems with Web authentication before.

CNET News.com 2011

Alternatives to the current system have been suggested, including one by former hacker Moxie Marlinspike

BBC News - Home 2011