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Significant finding

March 1, 2004

NASA plans to hold a press conference tomorrow to announce “significant findings” from the Mars rovers. Could it be water? Remnants of life? Or weapons of mass destruction?

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They’re called portmanteau words

Every Sunday, I religiously read The Style Invitational in The Washington Post. Today: the results of a contest in which entrants were asked to combine two words that overlap by two letters or more. A couple of my  [more...]

November 17, 2002
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The a la carte airport

I’ve been reading up on the new San Jose airport, which opened today — things like this fascinate me for some bizarre, geeky reason.

June 30, 2010

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