I just read that Topps was making Wacky Packages again, and was slammed back into my early childhood— especially after I followed another link to a web site that has an exhaustive index of all the old stickers from the ’70s, with close-up pictures of each one! Wow. I have vivid memories of my friend Keith’s massive collection—I imagine he had …
Lexical Limericks!
A group on the discussion boards at Wordcraft have begun an ambitious project—rewriting the entire Oxford English Dictionary in limericks. It’s referred to, rather appropriately, as The Oxford English Dictionary in Limerick Form, or (even more appropriately, if you ask me) the OEDILF. They’ve progressed so far, well, into the early parts of “a”—but it’s a strong start, and as …
Brow(ser) Beaten
All right, kiddies, I was going to let this past week’s Internet Explorer shenanigans drop, because I’m frankly sick of hearing about them, and I doubt I’ve got many readers at this point in the summer, anyway. But the other day, the Register reported that US CERT (the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team) was recommending using anything but Internet Explorer. …