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Thursday, August 31, 2006

Dictionary.com Redesign

Dictionary.com has launched its redesign, done by Happy Cog. It’s not very drastic and seems to offer no new dictionary content.

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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Need to Change Nigeria’s Name

“All the woes, crises, skirmishes and problems bedeviling this great country since pre-independent period, could be traceable to the fact that Nigeria was named by a woman. Woman, your name is ‘Woe to man.’ These woes include political violence, religious conflicts, social upheavals, educational crises and economic strangulation, among others.” (Source Link)

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For Harry Anderson, the New Orleans Magic Is Gone

“Then, in May, there was a repeat of an attack that had occurred more than a year before, when a stranger had approached Mr. Anderson, slammed his face into the side of a building and cursed him, saying, ‘You killed the Matador.’ That was the name of the bar he had replaced with Oswald’s.” (Source Link)

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Thursday, August 17, 2006

Tim Bracy: the Gentleman Sportswriter

Tim Bracy’s first sports column is up at L Magazine. He has a writing style that’s happily overwrought—it has that tingling anticipatory feeling of being one yacht race short of gentility and being too early in the afternoon for a whiskey before the fire. The column has the same name as his weblog, The Power of My Proven System, which has always made me think half about Anthony Robbins motivational cassette tapes and half about crackpot Vegas card-counting schemes.

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Monday, August 14, 2006

Not Black but black

James Campbell, writing on behalf of the Houston Chronicle, has an excellent explanation of why that newspaper describes some Americans as “black” and not “Black."

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Recent Catchwords

fertigation n. (9/4)
lobbocracy n. (9/4)
quiet title n. (9/3)
plankowner n. (9/2)
zapper n. (9/2)
twiller n. (8/31)
beach nourishment n. (8/31)
Mottness n. (8/31)
hubba n. (8/31)
hole doping n. (8/29)
foot drop n. (8/29)
springboard injunction n. (8/28)
turabosis n. (8/28)
Truman Show delusion n. (8/28)
relokill n. (8/27)
toothpick rule n. (8/27)
age-doping n. (8/27)
narcisurfing n. (8/27)
chemical rapping n. (8/27)
LPU n. (8/27)

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