Celebrating America
Tom Tomorrow is up to his usual tricks. Cute recent This Modern World installment is, as usual, acerbic, funny, and,...
Semantic attacks
I'd heard of "social engineering" before; that's a form of hacking that involves breaking into computer systems by getting secure...
Tmesis
Mary Anne wrote that Emerson "stuck another word in the midst of 'whatsoever' -- i.e., 'what difficulty soever' or 'what...
Lawsuit
Pakistani man sues United Airlines for refusing to let him fly, according to this article in the San Francisco Chronicle....
Set the Wayback machine
I've been hearing about this, or variants on it, for a while, but it's only just been made available to...
Big dare
November, it seems, is National Novel Writing Month. The folks at NaNoWriMo (as they call it) encourage people to sign...
Auctioning services
Cute fake eBay auction of one (1) ass-kicking. Seller will visit buyer's house and kick their ass. Good to know...
Wil Wheaton lives
Like, omigod! Wil Wheaton (yes, as in Wesley Crusher from ST:TNG) not only has a journal/Weblog (at that sitesample: "something...
Next-gen display technology
Samsung SDI is working on OLED displaysOrganic Light-Emitting Diodes. I know nothing about OLEDs besides what it says in this...
Etymology answer
The OED reveals, as far as we can tell, that Islam is cognate with salaam but not actually derived from...
Etymology of “Islam”
At least two sources in the past few days have indicated that the word Islam derives from the word salaam,...
Suicide bombers
Long but fascinating New York Times article describing the thoughts and opinions of various Muslims in Gaza, Cairo, and Hamburg...