January 2008
34 posts
brickbat. The American Heritage Dictionary →
An unfavorable remark; a criticism.
Viaticum - Wikipedia →
the Eucharist (Communion) given to a dying person.
Urban Dictionary: (s)talking →
communicating with a stranger or someone you have just met, via the internet.
Extreme Unction - Wikipedia →
ritual anointing of a sick person
“Rotate your racial slurs.”
– Uncle Ruckus
spinininfinity: saying NO (maybe) →
“He’s very nice and smart, but so are a lot of people, and the fact that we are both nice and smart is not reason enough for us to be dating.”
Orthogenesis - Wikipedia →
the hypothesis that life has an innate tendency to move in a unilinear fashion due to some internal or external “driving force”.
“videos don’t have a sexual preference”
Force majeure - Wikipedia →
a common clause in contracts which essentially frees both parties from liability or obligation when an extraordinary event or circumstance prevents one or both parties from fulfilling their obligations
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Thinking Makes You Unpopular and Dumb →
“I don’t know who discovered water, but it wasn’t a fish”
Urban Dictionary: reverse telecommuting →
Bringing personal work to the office: paying bills, playing games and reading online newspapers on company time [see also: Homing from Work]
Urban Dictionary: googleganger →
Similar to that of a doppleganger, it is another individual with the same name as you whose records and/or stories are mixed in with your own when you Google yourself.
Whiggish historiography - Wikipedia →
Whig historiography perceives the past as an inevitable progression towards ever greater liberty and enlightenment, culminating in modern forms of liberal democracy and constitutional monarchy.
Anthropic principle - Wikipedia →
humans should take into account the constraints that human existence as observers imposes on the sort of universe that could be observed
Cultivar - Wikipedia →
a cultivated plant that has been selected and given a unique name because it has desirable characteristics (decorative or useful) that distinguish it from otherwise similar plants of the same species. When propagated it retains those characteristics.
"what the fuck are you eating the ceiling for?" →
Urban Dictionary: w blue sky lives →
Infinite capacity due to some technical screwup on the part of your antagonist.
“It is a devastating announcement for bloggers in middle Tennessee”
barycenter - Wikipedia →
the point between two objects where they balance each other.
“the high road is lonely and cold but you get a helluva view”
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Fall Internship Pays Off With Coveted Winter... →
Werner added that his main goal is to use his connections at ESPN to secure a highly desirable spring internship that could possibly offer school credit and a modest travel stipend.
Urban Dictionary: pawg →
Phat Ass White Girl
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You Never Email Me Anymore →
“it’s easy to be in love three hours a week”
Wordmark (graphic identity) - Wikipedia →
a standardized graphic representation of the name of a company, institution, or product name used for purposes of identification and branding.
Autoscopy - Wikipedia →
an experience in which a person while believing to be awake sees her/his body and the world from a location outside her/his physical body.
Samsara - Wikipedia →
the cycle of reincarnation or rebirth in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and other related religions
Metempsychosis - Wikipedia →
a philosophical term in the Greek language referring to the belief of transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death
“eine zum Verlieben schönen Négresse”
– Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
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"inaccurate fun is not fun" →
House organ - Wikipedia →
magazine or periodical published by a company in order to promote that company’s products