I’ve been saving up links to stories I find interesting for a while now, so I thought I’d dump them all in one post.
‘Ginormous’ the Top Non-Dictionary Word
The editors of Merriam-Webster dictionaries got more than 3,000 entries when, in a lighthearted moment, they asked visitors to their Web site to submit their favorite words that aren’t in the dictionary.
- ginormous (adj): bigger than gigantic and bigger than enormous
- confuzzled (adj): confused and puzzled at the same time
- woot (interj): an exclamation of joy or excitement
- chillax (v): chill out/relax, hang out with friends
- cognitive displaysia
(n): the feeling you have before you even leave the house that you are going to forget something and not remember it until you’re on the highway
- gription (n): the purchase gained by friction: “My car needs new tires because the old ones have lost their gription.”
- phonecrastinate (v): to put off answering the phone until caller ID displays the incoming name and number
- slickery (adj): having a surface that is wet and icy
- snirt (n): snow that is dirty, often seen by the side of roads and parking lots that have been plowed
- lingweenie (n): a person incapable of producing neologisms
The Raiders of the Lost Ark
Dr. Vendyl Jones, the famed archaeologist, the inspiration for the “Indiana Jones†movie series, has spent most of his life searching for the Ark of the Covenant. The ark was the resting place of the Ten Commandments, given to the Jewish people at Mount Sinai, and was hidden just before the destruction of the First Temple. The Talmud says the Ark is hidden in a secret passage under the Temple Mount. Dr. Vendyl Jones says that the tunnel actually continues 18 miles southward, and that the Ark was brought through the tunnel to its current resting place in the Judean Desert. He believes the ark will be discovered by Tisha B’Av (Aug. 14), a day of repeated tragedy in Jewish history. Most notably, it is the anniversary of the destruction of both the First and Second Holy Temples.
‘Spamalot’ Leads the Pack With 14 Tony Nominations
Spamalot,” the decidedly goofy musical adaptation of the 1975 cult film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” led all productions yesterday, as it bagged 14 Tony Award nominations, including nods for best musical; its director, Mike Nichols; and five of its actors.
The show, which opened in March and has built a mammoth advance of $25 million in ticket sales, will face competition in the best-musical category – the Tonys’ most coveted prize – from an eclectic bunch of challengers, including “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” another musical drawn from a film; “The Light in the Piazza,” a high-minded work from Lincoln Center Theater; and “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” a low-budget but critically acclaimed comedy originally conceived as an Off Off Broadway play. The 59th Annual Tony Awards will be announced on June 5 at Radio City Music Hall.
Prayer effective as painkiller?
Americans have found a no-cost painkiller they say is as effective as prescription drugs: prayer. More than half of those who responded to a USA TODAY/ABC News/Stanford University Medical Center poll released Monday say they use prayer to control pain. Of those, 90% say it worked well, and 51% say “very well.”
Roadcasting – A new type of radio
Roadcasting is a system that allows anyone to have their own radio station, broadcasted among cars in an ad-hoc network. It plays the songs that people want to hear and it transforms car radio into an interactive medium.
Roadcasting combines the good things about listening to the radio and the good things about being a radio DJ while eliminating the bad things to form a new type of radio service. It’s incredibly easy to have your own radio station heard by others in their cars within a 30-mile radius. Roadcasting matches you to radio stations that play the music you want to hear.
Wormhole ‘no use’ for time travel
For budding time travellers, the future (or should that be the past?) is starting to look bleak. Hypothetical tunnels called wormholes once looked like the best bet for constructing a real time machine. These cosmic shortcuts, which link one point in the Universe to another, are favoured by science fiction writers as a means both of explaining time travel and of circumventing the limitations imposed by the speed of light. But the idea of building these so-called traversable wormholes is looking increasingly shaky, according to two new scientific analyses.
Congratulations to my brother David and his new wife Elizabeth! They tied the knot today in a short but nice ceremony at 
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Still remember you emailing me about Car-Part's website.
never flown?! that blows me away! typo in the 'caliper'. 
