Archive for August, 2011
I recently encountered the term Woop Woop, which turns out to be, according to answers.com, “An imaginary town in the remote outback, supposedly backward.” The example sentence, from the Sydney...
Interesting blog entry from the New York Times about the words that readers look up most often using their website's dictionary function; there's a list of the top 50, arranged...
The thing I find fascinating about the phrase “slow clap” is that it's used to refer to two different things that are near-opposites in meaning. On the one hand, there's...
No, this entry isn't about the letter-tile game Bananagrams. (Some of my friends love it; if you're unfamiliar with it, take a look. But it doesn't really fit my head...
A roving, says Wikipedia, is “a long and narrow bundle of fibre [...] usually used to spin woollen yarn.” I'm sure y'all fibre-arts people knew that already, but I hadn't...
Want some sample filler text, but find faux-Latin too stodgy? Now you can use Hipster Ipsum—“Artisanal filler text for your site or project” to fill your space with hipster-related terms....
Mary Anne was talking about eating cake the night before surgery. I noted that cake is the best medicine. Which led me to think there could be a whole series...