"A fall in value in assets in a hedge fund provokes a margin call, forcing the fund to sell assets to bring leverage back to its initial level...." more...
"Granbury, Texas, Isn't a Rural Town: It's a 'Micropolis' Census Bureau Adopts Term For Main Street America, And Marketers Take Note Beans, Ribs and..." more...
"Steven Goldstein, formerly nsf Program Officer for International Networking, was the primary nsf contact for nordunet for many years. In his view,..." more...
"When referring to URLs, 'cruft' is the parts which are only relevant or meaningful to the people who created the site, such as implementation..." more...
"For cruftless permalinks, you must use mod_rewrite, and IIS (common on Windows servers) does not support mod_rewrite. If you are using Apache..." more...
"Directed by Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People), this science-fiction thriller presents the story of a doomed love affair set in the near..." more...
"Did you catch that? Listen closely - First she says twopointopians are “cultists who don’t like disagreement” and then, when I disagree with..." more...
Eyes of the calculor: http://www.librarything.com/work/15387
"In the final Greatwinter book the emerging technology is zapped by Mirrorsun, EMP-style. This forces fallback to the old human powered/slave..." more...
"Langstroth's crucial insight -- "I could scarcely refrain from shouting 'Eureka!' in the open streets," he wrote of the moment of revelation -- was..." more...
"I was looking at the Urban Dictionary and found a great word that communicates what many young people are experiencing. Many people in today’s..." more...
"As one gamer told a Stanford University researcher, in “real life ... we have little reliance on others and individuals are rarely thrown into..." more...
"No word on which hedgetards are involved but again let me say: Faceberg, you are some kind of wonderful. I mean it. Wow. Much love. ([Fake Steve..." more...
""Litost is an untranslatable Czech word. Its first syllable, which is long and stressed, sounds like the wail of an abandoned dog. As for the..." more...
"Pyrography is the art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks resulting from the controlled application of a heated object. ..." more...
seen on Digital Urban http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/10/top-5-technology-buzz-words.html
"Steady at number 2 is Social Shaping, although not a new term by any means it crops up a lot in papers and grant applications at the moment. In..." more...
"Half the excitement about the online steampunk revival seems to source from the fact that it's only been done once before. That's what it comes to,..." more...
"Partly that, maybe? Partly because we're in Reynolds' "anachronesis" -- living in a time of constant, delusional recursion, in a limbo of a..." more...
"Vaguery is the primary tool of songwriters," Frey said. " 'I've seen fire and I've seen rain.' What the hell does that mean? But it works, it means..." more...
"On December 18th ,1999, residents of the Letcher County community of Blackey brought over 100 family photographs for scanning to the C.B. Caudill..." more...
"mysticbob. @vaguery what a coincedental word. i'm enspiming things for a client right now. parking that word firmly my the lexicon (via twitter)" more...
"The advance patrol of the 76 million baby boom generation reaches age 65 in the year 2011. Catastropharian pundits and forecasters are already..." more...
"So don’t dismiss making new words as an a-prioriBad Idea. Give it a shot. Not all your new words will survive, but neither do all your new..." more...
"What," you say? "How can that be? I already spend all my time on Myfaceborkutspace. My life is there. My friends are there. I lose an hour each..." more...
"The study, led by Dr. Lucy Cooke of the department of epidemiology and public health at University College London, was published in the American..." more...
"OpenID, RapLeaf, Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Undisposable. All of these services have one thing in common - they make web development more granular. By..." more...
"In fact, if you’re a regular Springwise reader, you already know that we live in a world of absolute INNOVATION OVERLOAD: clever entrepreneurs,..." more...
"The blue lights of an ambulance and a police car, which were featured in the homeless-people scene, pulsed in the darkness. Simon stood in the..." more...
"Hence honesty became a ruling propensity; so that midst the hubbub of the maddest camp-life there was always found enough of righteousness to..." more...
"Molecular biology (including the publication of the human genome) and the so-called evo-devo paradigm now permit us to establish new and often..." more...
"I'll definitely be personally following up with the organizers. I'm absolutely against any pitchforking -- and want to make sure that we, as the..." more...
"Why did I keep going back and why did I give it two stars? As Zelda Gilroy used to say on Dobie Gillis: propinquity. And I like the lighting." ..." more...
"Another word we have is pank. It means to pat down something, as, " He panked down the sand around his sand castle." (Dictionary of American..." more...
"But the interest in physical books overall seems diminished by the satiation of curiosity by a simple search on the internet, and the distraction..." more...
"Highway 401 in Ontario, Canada runs from Windsor all the way across to the Quebec border and on to Montreal. Since the 1970s, the speed limit has..." more...
"LOL, I once talked to some Americans who travelled Highway 401 and were heading back to the US. They were really confused about the speed limits up..." more...
"Cummings wrote back in the age of real type, but looked forward to what might be called the sanserification of print: the way our computer versions..." more...
via Sandra Breman, http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_7/braman/index.html
"With the transition from a panopticon to a panspectron environment, the production of open information not only provides support for communities..." more...
