Archive for August, 2006

Personally I was extremely annoyed that Pluto was recently demoted to the status of a dwarf planet. It’s really not fair to poor old Pluto, a planet that has steadfastly guarded the currently accepted outer reaches of our solar system since its discovery in 1930. It may yet be reclassified again as a new...
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It has come to my attention that some of you out there are still using Internet Explorer for your browsing. I have no idea why, but that’s not really an issue for me. What is an issue, however, is that when you view The Word in IE you don’t get the sidebar of links...
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I’ve recently discovered a great service offered by Feedburner. They now supply an option for people to subscribe to a blog via email rather than just the traditional RSS feeds. You can read all about it at the Feedburner site and their Terms of Service and Privacy Policy are on their homepage. I’ve added...
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You sometimes can’t help laughing at things that are really quite serious. For example, the thought of Osama Bin Laden arranging the murder of a man in order to have that man’s wife as his own. You think I’m making this up? Not at all. According to the autobiography of Kola Boof, a Sudanese...
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For those of you that enjoy chatting in cyberspace about things that excite you, there’s recently been a merger of a couple of Speculative Fiction forums. The result is one of the largest discussion forums on the web, with over 12,000 members. Of course, as with most forums, I expect that only about 4...
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Some of the worst word abusers around today are those stone-hearted automatons that run the evil empire of marketing. These people make creating need the cornerstone of their endeavours with no greater purpose than turning a profit, regardless of the impact on people, the environment or anything else. Maybe I’m being a little bit...
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I’ve recently come across this site, which is good news for bloggers everywhere. MyBlogLog.com It’s a little bit like a MySpace community, but dedicated to bloggers. On the site you can create a profile for yourself and list your blog. Others can then find you or your blog through searches and you can join...
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I’ve just learned that the anarchist/communalist writer and philosopher Murray Bookchin died recently. He suffered heart failure at his home in Vermont, USA on 30th July 2006, aged 85. Bookchin is the author of two dozen books and a thinker way ahead of his time. He drew attention to and hypothesised on ecological and...
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Remember the little discussions we’ve had recently concerning church signs? The original post was back in June and here’s the follow up, in case you missed them. Well, Central Baptist Church in Sydney is at it again. This is their latest sign: So, do you feel ugly today? Seriously, who gets up one day...
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This is for anyone that thinks punctuation is optional. Yeah, I’m talking to you, kids of today. I originally read about this on Neil Gaiman’s blog. A Canadian company stands to pay an extra $2.13 million due to one little comma appearing in a contract where no comma should have been. Now, this is...
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