It’s interesting that people are providing me with both words and definitions now! There were again some interesting ones this week:
Passhole: [Noun] A driver who will not allow you to pass them in traffic.
filk: What filkers do. (I obviously had to look this one up. Check out the “Filk FAQ” here).
lachrymologist: A weep or teardrop [...]
I came across this data visualization today. It’s really just a plot, but it conveys a lot of information in a very simple, intuitive manner. And I’ve been especially sensitive to this lately since I’ve been working on some information-rich visualizations of my own data.
Here is the plot:
It’s from a paper on gender identity in [...]
Last week I received three interesting “words” (with definitions) in my word of the week poll on Mechanical Turk. Has anyone heard of these before?:
1) spatulamancy: divination using the shoulder bone of a sheep
2) Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic: describing the spa waters at Bath, England, is attributed to Dr. Edward Strother (1675-1737).
3) Sexy-Ugly: Someone who is not conventionally [...]
The stimulus bill passed last week and Saturday was Valentine’s day. With the exception of a ‘heartless’ and ’sexy-ugly’ there weren’t many other signs that V-day came and went.
Here are the Words of the Week for the week ending February 15, 2009:
The biggest landmark from last week was probably discussion of the economic stimulus package. Perhaps football (left over from the Super Bowl?) and basketball were also on people’s minds?
Here are the Words of the Week for the week ending Feb 8, 2009:
