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TagI'mit
Remember how we used to say that, when we were kids, dashing up and touching someone’s shoulder and dashing away even faster before they could tagback? Anyway, I have been tagged by the everlove… more →
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Lesson #7(?): Recouping losses in translation
janechong wrote 22 hours ago: There is no excuse for voluntarily entering a foreign country without knowing how to semi-intelligib … more →
Did You Know? 4.0
donahueg wrote 4 days ago: Very interesting video from “The Economist” of all places. It is a short, less than 5 mi … more →
Blood types
rivet30 wrote 3 months ago: Question 1 What is the most common blood type? a)A b)O c)AB d)B Answer is b, Blood type O … more →
factoid: volcanoes
redstardogfish wrote 4 months ago: Ok, so this is the story that has been a part of my folklore: we humans think we are pretty big and … more →
factoids and propositions
redstardogfish wrote 4 months ago: I’d like to make a category of ‘factoids’ and ‘propositions’. Factoids … more →
Factoid
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Cathryn wrote 4 months ago: I love words, all writers do. Often I wish I knew more words and sometimes I think I should consider … more →
It's Sunny
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lstrassman wrote 4 months ago: That’s it the best news is that the rain stopped in the Boston area. Sorry if elsewhere the we … more →
Ready... steady... wait!
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SJAT wrote 5 months ago: Why is it that Traffic lights know when I’m approaching. I swear that, not only can I not hit … more →
The Web's the Word
lstrassman wrote 5 months ago: Ok, well actually the word is Web 2.0. Website Global Language Monitor has declared Web 2.0 the mill … more →
Fact and Fiction on the Web
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Rob Brown wrote 6 months ago: We tend to believe that we have a natural instinct for the truth but the web has many inaccuracies t … more →
The RAID-5 Write Hole
Mike D wrote 7 months ago: This is an interesting issue that I think far too few of us acknowledge or even know about. I first … more →
Krispy Kreme Krap
originalbeauty wrote 8 months ago: 12/97 number of Krispy Kreme doughnut ‘artifacts’ on display at the Smithsonian: 48 Har … more →
This is not a factoid
Phil Harvey wrote 9 months ago: I wonder where factoid came from, anyway? I overheard the question and couldn’t help wondering … more →
crocodilesmiles wrote 9 months ago: bow down before the one you serve … more →
Self-published book sales
notextinct wrote 10 months ago: [Author Solutions] represented 19,000 titles in 2008, nearly six times more than Random House, the w … more →
Is Two a Series?
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textisle wrote 10 months ago: This is a 12″ block I made for a swap in Arizona using indigo and hand-dyed fabric and followi … more →
Higher education
notextinct wrote 10 months ago: About half of American adults have a higher education degree, but for Hispanics and African-American … more →
Truth serum
notextinct wrote 10 months ago: In India, police use truth serum on suspects. In May a 14-year-old girl, Aarushi Talwar, was found d … more →
Basho
crocodilesmiles wrote 10 months ago: Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die … more →
