Archive for January, 2010
Guest blogger Shmuel here again... the problem with getting behind in blogging is that you feel that after taking so long, you ought to write something really good, which of...
Someone recently linked to the Verbs Bad manifesto, a verbless argument against the use of verbs, written by Miranda Tedholm, age 17; it apparently won a Scholastic "Art and Writing"...
The other morning, as I was waking up, it occurred to me that I pretty much never hear the word "nix," but I do occasionally hear the Pig Latin word...
My main blog has been receiving a lot of comment spam lately. Annoying, but the upside is that some of the comments are mildly entertaining: they're posted by a spambot...
Pandiculation is "the act of stretching oneself." The context in which I encountered it indicated that the term is specifically used to refer to the sort of stretching one does...
Interesting New York Times article: "Deciphering the Chatter of Monkeys and Chimps." Excerpt: It is tempting to think of the vervet calls as words for "leopard," "snake" or "eagle," but...
I've been playing an iPhone game called Befuddled that lets you find words in a grid, sort of Boggle-style (but a much bigger grid and with many many complications). It's...
John Gruber at Daring Fireball has been linking to various posts having to do with the use of small caps in typesetting. For example: Gore's choice explains Al Gore's request...
Apparently, "buckraking" refers to a journalist taking a lot of money for a speaking engagement, especially speaking to a group that has a particular agenda; such a payment may cast...
Apparently, Utah Mormon names are often pretty unusual. A couple who used to live in Utah have been collecting such names for the past ten years or so; the result...