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From WIRED, today

William Safire looks at new dictionaries and slang, specifically
the first complete revision of Merriman Webster’s Collegiate in a
decade, released this week, which includes such new entries as Frankenfood [...]

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) — By the time they died in a 1999
plane crash, John F. Kennedy Jr., and his wife, Carolyn Bessette, were
living
a life of separate beds and violence, and Bessette was [...]

T-Mobile drives a nail into the Sidekick’s coffin
Thank goodness I am too cheap to run out and buy all the things I
absolutely HAVE TO HAVE! This saves me from mistakes like the T-Mobile
Sidekick, a combo cellphone, PDA, wireless [...]

God is All-powerful and Omnipresent, and knows all that is knowable.
God had a good 3,000 year run as the ultimate authority, repository of
knowledge, dispenser of advice and receipient of pleas, supplications
and [...]

Some
of you (like me) may have missed Thomas
Pynchon’s rather remarkable introduction to the new edition of George
Orwell’s 1984, [...]

Speaking at a public symposium, a member of Parliament, Seiichi Ota,
recently made light of reports of gang rapes at a Tokyo university. "Boys
who commit group rape are in good shape," Mr. Ota said. "I
[...]