Found in Jaron Lanier’s [*You Are Not A Gadget*]([canonical-url:2013/05/26/finding-internets-inner-human]). I haven’t read enough of the book to tell much about it, but it should be…
I stumbled across [a passage from *Moby-Dick*]([canonical-url:node/1564]) which tickled my fancy today. In there was a word I can generally discern from context, but of…
The word kakistocracy popped up in Johnson, the Economist’s language blog. Normally I don’t include words unless I have to look them up for some…
I can’t fault the New York Times too much. After all, they were quoting what others said in yesterday’s article Can a Playground Be Too…
She: I’ve got to get up and get lunch. I’m like an amoeba today. Me: Heterotrophic? In the age of text messaging, one can use Wikipedia…