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"What if all the other social networks dedicated to books banded together and let their users communicate with each other over the fence, as it were?" Heaven on earth, as it were.
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"Rob Harrell's Big Top comic takes on word aversion…"
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'Whenever I see "not a real word" used to stigmatize what is (usually) a perfectly cromulent word, I wonder why the writer felt the need to hang a big sign reading "I am not confident about my writing" on it. What do they imagine the penalty is for using an "unreal" word? A ticket from the Dictionary Police?' –via boingboing.net
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The map animation that opens this package uses Pentagon worldwide troop data from every half-decade since 1950, plus 2007, the latest year for which the data is available. "These numbers are often fuzzy: Some deployments are classified, others are temporary, and just because the Defense Department claims 30 US troops in Indonesia last year doesn't mean 1,500 didn't pass through on training missions. Even so, the map, and the associated research, should give you a good feel for what the Pentagon is up to around the world." Just one question: Why don't we have troops in Papua New Guinea?
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"When editors decide to class up their headlines with references to Mr. Carver's oeuvre, maybe they should think of his other collection, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, and not talk so much when they talk about something."
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