Recombinant idioms
There was a good Frank Rich opinion piece in the New York Times a week ago on Sarah Palin. But the reason I'm mentioning it here is not the topic...
Names for the (Biblical) nameless
Recently came across an interesting item in Wikipedia: List of names for the Biblical nameless, which "compiles names given in Jewish or Christian mythology for characters who are unnamed in...
Placeholders appear in newspaper
Some years back, I saw an employment ad for a major computer company in which all the text said "Lorem ipsum." Clearly someone was supposed to fill in actual copy,...
Salutations!
My name is Shmuel, and I'll be your guest blogger. I'd like to thank Jed for inviting me to come and play. I'm flattered, and excited, and terribly uncertain of...
Introducing guest blogger Shmuel
It occurred to me a while back that it might be interesting to have other folks who are interested in words and wordplay join me in blogging here, either temporarily...
“Polyamory is wrong!” T-shirt
Entertaining T-shirt from zazzle.com says: Polyamory is wrong! It is either Multiamory or Polyphilia but mixing Greek and Latin roots? Wrong!...
Cursebird: swearing on Twitter
Cursebird provides "a real-time feed of people swearing on Twitter." It even shows a seven-day overview bar graph of the relative frequency of various common swear words....
“A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families”
The title of this article and the blurb at the top of the article seem to suggest that everyone uses the same names for Lego pieces, but in fact part...
HUDLOOMS
Best spam subject line of the week: RE: BE CAREFUL OF THE HUDLOOMS I thought perhaps a HUDLOOM was a weaving device containing a Heads-Up Display. Or perhaps some kind...
Bucket of Does
I saw a billboard advertising the new Droid cell phone yesterday. It had a hard-edged and manly sort of high-tech industrial look to it, and it said: A BARE-KNUCKLED BUCKET...