Heh, heh, heh. The New York Times story that accompanies the image above celebrates Britain's many wonderful street and place names, from the village of Crapstone to Crotch Crescent (Oxford), Titty Ho (Northamptonshire), Wetwang (East Yorkshire) and Slutshole Lane (Norfolk).Here in St. Louis, all Unreal can think of off the top of our head is Blow Street. Of course, we were once the proud home of Griesedieck Brothers beer (a brand that's been revived).Anyone got any others?
It was only a matter of time before the academic world got its grimy paws on Twitter. (The academic world would also repudiate that last sentence because worlds don't have hands.)The good folks of Oxford University Press, under the guise of "work", have spent the past six months monitoring 1.5 million tweets. That is a lot of useless information about complete strangers. But since they are the folks who write the dictionary, there was a serious inquiry behind their Twitter-reading:How badly do t
The New Oxford American Dictionary is out with its "Word of the Year" for 2009. That term? Unfriend, meaning to remove someone from a social media site, such as Facebook. The New York Times quotes Oxford lexicographer Christine Lindberg as saying unfriend has ''real lex appeal'' for best reflecting the mood of the year. We here at Daily RFT credit Burger King for the success of the word. The fast-food chain's competition -- earning diners a free Whopper if they "unfriend" 10 people from Faceb
