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LOL is Now Officially English

, Mar 25th 2011 Discuss [5]

The Oxford English Dictionary added a number of networthy initialisms to the ranks of official English words. If you haven't heard of an initialism before, I hadn't, you'll now know that this is a word that is created by making an acronym from the first letters of each word in a longer phrase. The venerable dictionary added and updated a collection of these acronyms to it's rolls of wordiness earlier today. Read The Full Story

Newest Farmville Crop Is…Watermelon Babies?

, Feb 23rd 2011 Discuss [0]

Popular game Farmville has a new crop you can try, but its appearance can be a bit off-putting. Farmville China now has Watermelon Babies. You read that correctly. The crop looks like a regular watermelon, save for the fact that it has a pink baby-looking creature poking out the top. Read The Full Story

She blinded me with Steins of Science (and beer)

, Dec 31st 2010 Discuss [0]

Science is one of the subjects that tends to have a lot of dry, boring subject material spiced a bit with some really cool stuff. The Steins of Science certainly fall into that really cool stuff category. A science geek devised to create the ultimate beer drinking steins and to do so they used heavy-duty beakers from a science lab. Read The Full Story
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