tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305944252011-11-27T19:05:22.764-05:00<b>Lexidiem</b>. <i>n. sing.</i> lek-si'-dee-im. 1. Word of the day. [Modern American English, from Greek <i>lexis</i> (word) and Latin <i>diem</i> (day), reflecting the hodgepodge of roots that make up Modern American English words].JargonTalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175462071956276019noreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-1162607877359954492010-01-29T16:00:00.001-05:002010-01-29T16:20:28.579-05:00

Ken Auletta's new book Googled takes us for a fascinating look behind the scene as he shows us the growth of Google from its simple beginnings within the labs of Stanford University to its becoming what is perhaps the most influential technology company in Silicon Valley today. Author Auletta is a technology journalist and media critic for the The New Yorker, and was one of the first to

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Is it actually possible to change the world? Can you make it a better place? Or is this just an overly Utopian idea? We all complain, but in fact most of us have it pretty easy. True, there are rough spots along the way; it happens to all of us. But why not help out someone who's going through a temporary difficulty? The video below is a trailer for the film Pay It Forward, starring Kevin

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(Originally published in October 2001) It was more than the typical Sunday drive, but since it was for the christening of some friends' young daughter, we didn't mind it. We left a bit early, but when driving anywhere around New York City, it seems like early is never enough. My son, a five-year-old and a well-seasoned traveler, was situated comfortably in his car seat, looking forward to the

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If you've ever watched “Inside the Actors Studio,” you've seen James Lipton ask the same 10 questions to each actor at the end of the show. This was tossed at me by a friend, so I responded. If you want to try, then copy the questions and replace my answers with yours. Enjoy! What is your favorite word? Verbivore. What is your least favorite word? Smarmy. What turns you on

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Change is interesting, and it’s often a good thing… The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ~ Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock and The Third Wave  There is nothing permanent except change. ~ Heraclitus (535-475 BCE.) It’s hard to argue with either of those thoughts. More here:

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As a Conservative, I'm voting for... ... the one man who has the necessary character to do the job, to take on the responsibilities of the office of the 44th President of the United States. As an American citizen, I would like to say that voters should pay less attention to a candidate's party and more to what they are saying and doing. Our first president, George Washington, warned against

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Love is in the air... PHILADELPHIA Feb 14, 2008 ― The Philadelphia Sheriff's Office showed their love and support for victims of domestic violence during an early morning Valentine's Day roundup Thursday. Sheriff's deputies led an early morning sweep in the pre-dawn hours to capture wanted domestic abuse as well as child support offenders. In 2007, there were 109 domestic abuse warrants issued

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This was my best Christmas present! There are many kinds of presents that one can receive over the holidays, and I'll touch on this in a journal later, but the best present that I received this year was the look on my son's face when he opened his "big present" from me this year, one that he had really wanted. He had already received a bunch of presents, including a very cool multi-function

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Wishing you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Afrikaans - Geseende Kerfees en 'n gelukkige nuwe jaar Albanian - Gëzuar Krishlindjet Vitin e Ri! Aleut - Kamgan Ukudigaa Alsatian - E gueti Wïnâchte & E glecklichs Nej Johr! Andalusian - Felíce Pahjcua y Felí Año, or Felí Navidá y Próhjpero Año Nuevo Apache (Western) - Gozhqq Keshmish Arabic - I'D Miilad Said ous Sana Saida Aramaic -

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This is a still from my new Happy Christmas video, just in time for the holidays. I've been secretly taking singing and performing lessons from the new British Ska group Tygorz, which is headed by none other than British music and animation legend Joel Veitch, and backed up by his band 7 Seconds of Love, along with the world-famous Ninja Kittens! They're even trying to teach me the proper

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In the News... Hollywood – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals on Monday announced that it is protesting and calling for a boycott of bisexual MySpace star Tila Tequila’s reality show on MTV, where she will pick a suitor from ten men and ten women. “The exclusion of animals from this show is outrageous and offensive,” said PETA spokesperson Ashley Keighley. “We won’t stand for this

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Old News Rehashed Department: PETA Tries to Get Hamburg, NY, to Change Its Name Note: This originally appeared in another one of my sites in 2003. Since PETA has been back in the news so much of late, it was worthwhile to take a look backward and compare their recent actions with some of their older efforts to "save the animals." You be the judge. HAMBURG, NY - The national animal rights group

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"I promise that I wont..." There have been many lists of lies that have been circulated around for years. People used to receive shorter versions on their fax machines, then with the advent of computers in the late 1900s, the lists began to grow. But now were in the new millennium, so perhaps it's time once again to update that list. Here is our humble offering of the 50 Greatest Lies of the

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My own case of Pottermania struck very late when I found that my son would not be getting his copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the night it was released as previously expected. My son was on vacation with relatives and due to start summer camp over the weekend, and suddenly all of the plans to get our copy on its US release date had fallen through, for a wide variety of unplanned

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There are times when each of us needs to kick back, to take a short break, if only to recharge our batteries. That's exactly what I'm doing, taking a short break. My son is away for summer camp, so the timing is ideal. Going to catch up with a friend or two, since that's a bit overdue. Might luxuriate and sleep in some mornings, possibly get out and shoot a few photos.  Now I know that rumors

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A Message From Rosie Rosie O'Donnell has quit her job as moderator of The View after a vicious war of words with Elizabeth Hasselbeck hit the headlines last week. She clashed with her co-host on last Wednesday's program after the pair fell out over their political views, and she has not returned to the daytime show since.She told fans she didn't know when she'd be back in a posting on her blog

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The Flavor of a Favor Barbie Cummings doesn't see what all the fuss is about.Trooper James Randy Moss of the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) was just doing his job when he observed a pink Honda Accord speeding outside of Nashville on May 7th. He clocked her doing 92 mph in a 70 mph zone near Lebanon, so doing his duty, he pulled her over.Since she was speeding, Trooper Moss felt it necessary to

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Live from Macworld 2007... As expected, Apple and Steve Jobs did a great job of promotion and presentation. You can read all about that here.  There was an item of extreme interest in Steve Jobs' keynote worth bringing up...  10:58am: "So, today we've added to the Mac and the iPod, we've added Apple TV, and now iPhone. And you know, the Mac is the only one you really think of as a computer, and

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Happy New Year 2007! New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.~ Mark Twain I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.~ Anais Nin One resolution I have made, and try

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OIG Review Questions Ethics in Reading First Program The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has released a scathing audit, an internal review of the Bush administration's billion-dollar-a-year Reading First program. The report says that the Education Department ignored the law and ethical standards to steer money how it wanted. State educational agencies have received over $4.8 billion in

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Books for young children seem to be changing.Books for kids are changing, and bedtime stories aren't about little bears, frogs that get kissed or magic dragons. Here's a new title: Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! Before you go any further, take a close look at the characters and items illustrated on the book's cover. You can see a larger version here. The publishers state: "This

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This 2,996 Tribute is dedicated to Darin Howard Pontell When Darin Pontell was 14, he decided that he would join the Navy. His older brother Steven was a Navy pilot, and he was killed in a crash on the USS Lexington off Pensacola, Florida in 1989. "When that happened, Darin mentioned that he'd like to pick up where his brother Steven left off, to complete the circle," his father, Gary Pontell,

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Those hungry for horsemeat won't get their wish this weekOn Thursday the House of Representatives passed H.R. 503, the bill that bans horse slaughter in the United State. The bill passed by a vote of 263 to 146, despite amendments submitted by House Agriculture Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte to weaken the measure. The issue was simple: about 90,000 horses are sent each year to three plants in

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Those hungry for horsemeat may get their wish this weekJust check out these 9/7/2006 headlines, and read this in the text:One fast food franchise has already applied for the name "Barbaro Burgers" as a trademark, and expects to be selling horse burgers before November 1st. Horrifying, isn't it? OK, this is a fictitious copy of a fictitious newspaper. 2006 Kentucky Derby Winner Barbaro is not

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RadioShack terminates 400+ people via e-mailWhat's going on here? RadioShack had announced earlier this month that they were going to trim some 400 to 450 jobs, so any news regarding this should have been expected. But what wasn't expected was the way they went about notifying the employees who were being terminated. Employees who were effected by this round of layoffs at RadioShack's Fort Worth

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Hello, Neighbor - here's your New Jersey salute!Darren Wood is building a new home in Riverton, Utah. He's installed a custom vent cover on his house, and says that it's a cactus design. Sounds like a pleasant style for a desert theme, but his neighbor disagrees. Stan Torgersen lives directly behind Wood's new home, and when he looks out his windows, he sees the symbol a hand giving him the

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Kids, Pluto is No Longer a PlanetSPACE.com reported today that after years of often intense debate, astronomers resolved today to demote Pluto in a wholesale redefinition of planethood that is being billed as a victory of scientific reasoning over historic and cultural influences. Already the decision is being hotly debated. So now, officially, Pluto is no longer a planet. Astronomers have been

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Prussian Black and Blue My son was watching television in the living room on Tuesday night, and as I walked through I did a double take at what was on the screen. It wasn't anything violent, pornographic or even inappropriate: he was watching "The Outsiders", a special on ABC News Primetime. What was disturbing though was the pair of angelic looking blonde twins, just a few years older than my

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All Your Snakes Are Belong To UsIt looks like that we may have a phenomenon in the making, and its based on the newly released movie Snakes on a Plane, starring Samuel L. Jackson. If you haven't heard all the hype about the film, also known as SoaP, you would have to be blind, deaf and hidden from the world for a few months now. But is it making its infamous trademark 12-letter-word acceptable

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Web 2.0 Logo Generatr, Windows Live Writr, and Naked Conversations Went to Scobleizer to check something out and became diverted (as often happens) by something quite different. Robert Scoble had posted a link to Steve Rubel's Micro Persuasion blog, where he had a Web 2.0 logo generator. It's supposed to be a joke, but you can create your own Web 2.0 logo with or without a reflection or Beta tag.

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Review: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt with Stephen J. DubnerFirst things first: this reviewer is not an economist, and I usually find such books can often be boring. Must admit that Freakonomics kept me up far too late over one weekend reading it through to the end. It was hard to put down. Another reader/reviewer emailed me, noting

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Intelligent Design? No, it's Incompetent Design!Let's get right to the point: the whole intelligent design issue seems to have gotten a bit out of hand these days. It looks like these folks have found a way to express their ideas in song and with a good sense of humor. Marching Song of the Incompetents,( a.k.a The I.D. Song)Lyrics by Don Wise, sung to the tune of"The Battle Hymn of the

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Terror Plot Uncovered in the UKWoke up Thursday morning to the news of an alleged terrorist plot to "commit mass murder on an unimaginable scale." British law enforcement authorities had arrested 24 suspects who had planned to explode 10 to 12 aircraft in mid-flight between Britain and America using liquid explosives. The plot was said to be just days away. British authorities said that the plan

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Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her home in Los Angeles on August 5, 1962, and thus a legend began. She was discovered lying face down and nude on her bed. There was a telephone in her hand, and empty prescription pill bottles were all around the room. Dr. Thomas Noguchi conducted a preliminary autopsy, the results were analyzed, and Coroner Theodore Curphey determined that Marilyn died from an

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MTV is now 25 years old - how time flies! It seems like such a short few years back that we saw the likes of Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Martha Quinn, Alan Hunter and (the late) J.J. Jackson introducing the latest video hits. There's an interesting article on where they are now on The Orlando Sentinel's blog. For those who don't know, MTV is the abbreviation for Music Television. The network

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Sexy Summer on Lake Balaton?The tourism authority in Balaton, Hungary is trying a new approach to attracting young visitors. Maybe they're trying to follow the well-known saying that "Virginia is for Lovers," a slogan that has endured for over thirty years. If that's the direction they're taking, than maybe their campaign on behalf of Lake Balaton should be called "Balaton is for Sex." We could

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I want to visit Kipling, Saskatchewan. According to their Website, the Town of Kipling has a population of about 1,100 people, who appear to not only enjoy a quality lifestyle, but seem to be very friendly as well (see these photos). Kipling is also the new home of Kyle MacDonald, the young Canadian man who traded the now-famous One Red Paperclip for a house in Kipling. For those who might have

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Legendary author Mickey Spillane, the creator of the best-selling, "hard-boiled" Mike Hammer detective novels, died Monday in his hometown of Murrells Inlet, SC. He was 88. Born Frank Morrison Spillane in Brooklyn, NY, began his writing career during high school. After a brief time at Kansas State Teachers College, he returned to New York City to work in retail, but that bored him. Spillane's

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I want to visit the Department of English & Comparative Literature at San Jose State University for the sole purpose of meeting Scott Rice, Ph.D. in person. Dr. Rice is obviously held in high esteem on the academic front, since he’s the Department Chair. His research interests cover the range of satire, grammar, British & European novels and commercialism in education.Even more important, Scott

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It's official, you can now google someone. Just don't say that you're going to Google them. According to Merriam-Webster Online, google is now recognized as a verb. To some of us this isn't new, because using google as a verb has been going on for years. goo·gle. transitive verb. 'gü-g&l 1. to use the Google search engine to obtain information about (as a person) on the World Wide Web. Inflected

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The winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for 2006 has been announced. Jim Guigli of Carmichael, California, submitted 64 entries into this year's annual contest, which is sponsored by the English Department at San Jose State University. Mr. Guigli is a retired mechanical designer who impressed the judges with his "appalling powers of invention," according to Scott Rice, a professor in

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Paris Hilton - a Virtual TourOK, let's face it, we've all seen the ads for the Paris Hilton video taped in Las Vegas in 2001. Some may have actually seen the whole thing or bought it on the Internet. From the stills and short clips that are available, it was obviously filmed in the dark, so the the quality was grainy and exceptionally poor. There was a second tape that surfaced with supposed

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Posted by: lexidiem on Buzznet Paris Hilton with cameraParis Hilton, using all her expertise and experience at being in front of a camera, doing what she does best: posing.On second thought, maybe posing is what she does second best.Paris Hilton

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Testing flickrThis is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing. Same images, but one on the left was resized. flickr

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FORTUNE Magazine broke the story on June 25, 2006 that Warren Buffett would be giving over $30 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "Brace yourself," Buffett warned editor-at-large Carol Loomis with a grin, then described what he was going to do. The press had a field day, and numerous news conferences were held with Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Melinda Gates in attendance. The

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musement park: here's to warren buffett A great man, a wise man, a self-proclaimed member of the "lucky sperm club."I know that he's way up there in the wealth category, but what is the Lucky Sperm Club?We may have another lexidiem here...

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Independence Day July 4th, 2006Today and every year on July 4th, we Americans celebrate our Independence Day. It's a day of parades, patriotic celebration and family cookouts, often followed by evening fireworks. This holiday has deep roots in our tradition of political freedom, a time there are many speeches extolling our American traditions and values. CelebrationIf anything (other than hot

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Here's an interesting question: why isn't there a single word that means "Word of the Day?"Well now there is, and Ironic Sans had it listed as follows:Lexidiem. n. sing. lek-si'-dee-im. (preferred) lek-si-dee'-im (altern. accepted) 1. Word of the day. [Modern American English, from Greek lexis (word) and Latin diem (day), reflecting the hodgepodge of international roots that make up Modern

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