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Apparently there are a lot of strange dictionaries out there. Otherwise-well-respected German dictionary publisher Langenscheidt announced that it is producing a German-Woman/Woman-German dictionary. (Psst, Toronto Star, it's "Also sprachen die Fräulein"... Third person plural, past tense of strong verb, ending is "en". You're welcome.) ...

It has become obvious by now that the mobile phone has changed the way people interact. These two papers were forwaded to me by a colleague, whose summary I am shamelessly lifting from heavily. First is a short paper titled Exploring the implications for social identity of the new sociology of the mobile phone. The much more fascinating (and ...

Ten thousand human beings in peak physical condition. All in one dormitory complex. With 130,000 free condoms. Let the games begin! And you have to tip your hat (tam?) to The Scotsman for finding an athlete named "Randy Jones" for this article.

Yesterday, I got a 419 scam via the contact form. This is a new low for spam stupidity. You'd think people who blog are more likely to be aware of Internet scams because they're reading the news, are clearly more comfortable with technology, and often make fun of news stories about 419 scammers. But if you're for real, I have this to say ...

Robert Scoble blogs from the Microsoft company picnic. Although he writes, "Microsoft holds a picnic for its employees every year," this suggests that the picnic is organized by Microsoft. It isn't. The company picnic is run by a professional company picnic company. They also do the Alaska Airlines company picnic, and probably th...

Norwegians have it so good that they've started getting lazy: Before the oil boom, when Norway was mostly poor and largely isolated, the country survived on its hard work and self-reliance, two stalwart Scandinavian virtues. Now, with the country still bulging from three decades of oil money, Norway is discovering that sudden we...

This weekend, I attended a soccer match between Chelsea FC and Celtic FC at Seahawks Stadium Qwest Field. The game was the opener of the 2004 ChampionsWorld Series, wherein some of the top soccer teams from Europe tour North America to give us yanks a chance to see how football is done for real. From reading the team's web sites bef...

Eric Lippert finds out what they are.

Victorinox, the company authorized to make so-called Swiss Army merchandise, has run into a bit of a problem: Is there anything else you could possibly think of putting on a pocketknife for an outdoorsman? And even if you did, there's no room for it. The pocketknife has already reached the point where it's too unwieldy to carry around ...

Last year, The Philip Morris Companies renamed itself to the warm-and-fuzzy sounding Altria Group. Gotta love the colorful abstract logo they've got. (Psst, editors of the Altria home page: It's "Whom We Fund". "Whom" with an "m".) They claim the name comes from the Latin altus ("high") but that doesn't explain where the "r" comes from....