Where I work, safety is king. No matter where you turn there are banners, stickers, signs, and plaques. I for one am extremely grateful. A lot of my co-workers joke about it and try to laugh it all off, but without those reminders, we could be hurt or dead. I would like to take a [...]
This is a fairly unconventional author spotlight, but I hope you will bear with me. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you have probably heard of woot.com. If you haven’t heard of woot, let me just tell you a little bit about them. Woot.com has been selling one deal [...]
In my meanderings across the web, I came across an oddity. Apparently, there are people in the world that are willing to pay an ungodly amount of money for a certain type of discontinued pencil called the Blackwing 602. According to pencilpages.com, these particular pencils started production in the 1980s and enjoyed a [relatively] long [...]
Well folks, I apologize for my lack of posting yesterday. I have been pretty busy with work and just trying to catch the last of the Summer fun before we enter the long dreary fall months. Thanks for boingboing.net, I felt like posting something today just for fun. So, without further delay, here is a [...]
Simply saying new words can bring them into existence. Last night, I spoke popplegrapple and it was. However, it takes a special kind of word to make it into the Oxford English Dictionary. That’s just what a motley crew of words decided to do recently. Some were fully acceptable like netbook and overthink, but there [...]