I wish I knew what the blogs were saying without reading them; maybe then I could update this one without typing.
“The 1886 citation is especially interesting because it gives the names for the dildo in several languages, Italian diletto among them, and states that dildo is the English variant of it. But this etymology must be wrong, for diletto (that is, “pleasure; beloved,” a delightful, delectable thing) would have remained diletto in English, as can be seen from stiletto, or yielded *dilto (an asterisk means that such a form does not exist).”
“Don’t have the Harpers. – I should like the Appletons or Scribner.”
I think that’s an unfair assumption. Writing stuff based on fact might actually be harder: Consider how few writers do it well…
They say having a lot of success early on can destroy your career.
Armavirumque has a Milan Kundera time capsule.
Transhumanism: still a load of crap unless interpreted loosely, in which case everyone who wears glasses is already a transhuman. The comment about The Singularity as “the rapture for nerds” is priceless.
Pigs also have the most human-like eating habits of all animals, or so Iowa farm lore goes.
It’s a pun on continental drift, get it? Clever? Clever?
Breaking: Lynn Truss has no sense of humor.