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I was bugging people at work asking them, “What does falute mean?” After about, oh, five hours, this was the result: Pronunciation: hai-fê-lut-ên * Hear it!Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: (Regional slang) 1. Highly pompous, bombastic (speech). 2. Showing off, ostentatious, pretending to be above one’s station in life, putting on airs. Notes: The amazing […]

“Ninja Parade Slips through Town Unnoticed Once Again“ (via The Onion) Update: I fixed the link. Let’s see how long it takes before the ninjas change it again…

…a documentary about Ben Underwood, a boy who had his eyes removed (cancer) at age two. He is the only person in the world ever really to have used echolocation to replace eyesight. That we know of. Because Daredevil, you know, wasn’t a real guy.

…of Steven Brust’s Taltos series. (via Steven Brust)

It sounds like researchers have found a way to negate the effects of HIV in human beings. Not a vaccine, not a cure — but a way of eradicating the symptoms. Hope? (via Neatorama)

Phantom Limb. This is one of those songs you listen to and go, “I should find out who sings that.” Sometimes this feeling comes about when the song is really good or you can’t get it out of your head. Sometimes it’s because it has interesting lyrics but you can’t really catch all of them.

nosism (NO-siz-em) noun The use of ‘we’ in referring to oneself. [From Latin nos (we).] As it’s often used by editors, it’s also known as the “editorial we”.It’s also called “the royal we” owing to its frequent use by royalty.Mark Twain once said, “Only kings, presidents, editors, and peoplewith tapeworms have the right to use

Pure D. Wrong: I rear-ended a car this morning. So there we are alongside the road and slowly the driver gets out of the car…and you know how you just-get-sooo-stressed and life-stuff seems to get funny? Yeah,well, I could NOT believe it…he was a DWARF! He storms over to my car, looks up at me

lexiphanes (lex-SIF-uh-neez) noun One who uses words pretentiously. [From Greek lexiphanes (phrase monger), from lexis (word or phrase) + -phaneia(to show).] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

Dagoba Organic Chocolate, New Moon (74%) Decent. Nicely balanced between fruity (not a specific fruit, just fruity) and loamy/earthy tastes. After the lavender and xocolatl, though, I was expecting to be seriously impressed. Nope. It was good, but I’d rather have the lavender and eat Green & Black’s dark chocolate instead. Better than Godiva by