A Word From the Wordsmith
…was Wordsmith.org, which today has more than 650,000 readers in 200 countries. Over the past 13 years, Garg has shared thousands of words with fellow linguaphiles, including illeist (someone who…
…was Wordsmith.org, which today has more than 650,000 readers in 200 countries. Over the past 13 years, Garg has shared thousands of words with fellow linguaphiles, including illeist (someone who…
An interesting article written by Jeremy Hsu on Scienceline.org does further damage to the Spinning Dancer’s already damaged reputation….
…But is it smarter to sell your vote than to cast it? George W. Bush spent $345 million to win re-election in 2004, according to opensecrets.org, a cost of around…
…found: Whitehouse.org leads you to a site that mocks George Bush. ForeignAffairs.com won’t lead you to the magazine, but it will help you find a Russian bride. (There is likely…
…Dollars. If you like the idea of a donation booth, or our related idea of contribution vouchers, you can learn more about how to make them a reality at http://www.citsov.org/….
…core search business. Is Google turning a corner and planning to diversify beyond its Internet roots? A: Google’s work in the energy area is primarily under the auspices of Google.org,…
…20 East Chestnut Street. Tickets are $75. If you would like to attend, you must RSVP to chicago@unifemusa.org ahead of time. You can pay with a check at the door,…
…web tool that folks dream about. I had exactly the same feeling when I recently visited Gapminder.org. They have an interactive data tool called “gapminder world” that is truly remarkable…
…on it. The Twain/Disraeli one is easy; you’ll find details on it all over the web. It is great to see a comment from the man behind the excellent qotd.org…
…including: competitive wages to attract the best applicants, increasing spending on advertising to build demand for philanthropy, and allowing investors to purchase stocks in non-profit organizations so philanthropy is not…
…Since that time, Google.org has instituted a system that provides real-time measurement of flu queries. (By the way, Google flu trends shows that this was not a bad year at…
Feeling a little guilty about that flight to London last month? No problem — you can offset that trip with credits from a reforestation project in Nicaragua, available at carbonfund.org….
Anu Garg, who runs the wonderful site Wordsmith.org, sends a weekly e-mail describing the theme of the words that will be featured in his word-a-day e-mails. This week’s theme is…
…The website, mandated by the Federal Funding and Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, is a revamped version of fedspending.org. Warning: if you’re a pacifist, steer clear, or at least…
…unsung heroes who took action to care and to love. Thank you for entrusting us with your loving donations. Please visit www.haitiadoption.org to view our Haiti trip photos. For The…
A reader named Ed Woodcock writes to tell us of … [A] conversation I had with a WHO (World Health Org.) official I bumped into while touring the Taj Mahal…
These days, you can do pretty much anything online, except for one: submit your U.S. census forms. A new website, UnofficialCensus.org, aims to change that, partially by “sham[ing] the U.S….
…of a ticket. Again trying to explain this as best I can, without a lawyer to translate what they originally told us. The feedback we have received via e-mails or…
…will not continue unto the 10th generation. The Post article also points to the wiki site?HandicappedFraud.org which even offers a handy iPhone app where citizens can reported suspected placard abuse….
…aptly-named website — chillingeffects.org.? Here, for example, is the firm that owns rights in the infamous “Barney” children’s television character threatening a website which uses images of Barney as part…
…the org chart religiously. My title was “programmer analyst, IT department” and yet I was always asking around: how did John Billock become head of marketing (he trudged around house…
…liberty is eternal vigilance.’ Since the publication of the YBQ, the monticello.org website has pushed “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty” back to 1809, in Thomas U. P. Charlton‘s,…
(Comstock) A short paper recently released by Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of Fastweb.com and FinAid.org, is shaking up the discussion of race and financial aid — specifically, Kantrowitz writes that white…
(Courtesy Joshua Gans) Our friend Joshua Gans, along with some colleagues, has launched a new blog devoted to the economics of digitization called digitopoly.org. Here, in a guest post, he…
If you like words even a little bit, you should take advantage of Anu Garg‘s wordsmith.org. It is an idiosyncratic exploration of how language works; his “word a day” e-mail…
(Photo: cali.org) A fair trial is harder to come by than you might think. A few years ago, we wrote about a paper (ungated version here) by Shamena Anwar, Patrick…
…How well can you predict a person’s degree of liberalism/conservatism based on his/her moral value scores? Andy A. A person’s scores on our surveys at YourMorals.org can help us predict…
…research, society is basing life-and-death decisions upon mathematical quicksand. You can learn more from many sources: The article “ESP and the significance of significance” from understandinguncertainty.org. Steven Goodman’s paper “A…
…#2: Restricting what the organization can do with your money Some organizations will tempt you to give by letting you earmark your donation to be spent on a particular item…
…give this award to Argo was made by the nearly 6,000 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. As Oscars.org notes, “the Academy numbers among its…