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Monthly Archives: December 2007
America reacts to Jamie-Lynn Spears’s pregnancy
From the comments at John Scalzi’s blog: There were two women discussing this in front of me at the grocery store tonight. One of them said, “I wish my damn kid waited that long.”
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Technology saves the day again!
One day, perhaps soon, you will no longer have to move your chair.
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So much for Al Gore being a lock
Vladimir Putin is Time’s Man of the Year. I dunno, if you’re going to choose a scary world leader for MotY, I think I would have gone with Ahmadinejad, but I suppose Putin isn’t a bad choice… Thumbs up to Time, anyway, for finding the courage to nominate someone less than heroic. Hey, wait a [...]
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Too tough for Winston: A continuing series
I’d love to put reader-generated puzzles on Winston’s blog, and one day I should get around to saying so. In the meantime, I’ve only received one puzzle so far, and it’s way too hard for most Winston readers. But it’s not too hard for you. Possibly. It’s a rebus. Can you figure out the answer? [...]
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They grow up so quickly
Amazon would like you to know that customers who bought Winston Breen have also purchased Crasswords: Dirty Crosswords for Cunning Linguists.
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The interjection gets a turn in the spotlight
Merriam-Webster’s “Word of the Year” for 2007 is… w00t. On the one hand, I’m underwhelmed. On the other hand, I can’t think of any decent alternatives for the honor. So, let’s all give a big w00t for w00t.
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No matter how you look at it…
Ken Jennings informs me that The Princess Bride uses an ambigram on its 20th-anniversary DVD cover.
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Triple negative
The Boy Scouts are being evicted from a city-owned building in Philadelphia — where they’ve resided since 1928 — for refusing to allow membership by homosexuals. Here’s the New York Times article on the story, which contains a sentence I had to read five or six times: “At the end of the day, you can [...]
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Recent movies. (Which is to say, I watched them recently. They came out months ago.)
Knocked Up: Shouldn’t have worked half as well as it does. If I absolutely have to, I can buy the idea that Katherine Heigl, as a glamorous and gorgeous entertainment reporter, would engage in a drunken hookup with Seth Rogen, playing a going-nowhere-fast goofball. But even though he gets her pregnant, it is unfathomable that she would [...]
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Almost back to blogging