Once again, The Washington Post published its yearly contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for various words.
And the winners are…
1. Coffee (n.), a person who is coughed upon.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have
gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having [...]

I mentioned last week that Joe Carter of The Evangelical Outpost was doing a series of posts on “Christians you should know and why you should know them. (the evangelical variety that is)
Joe is picking people that have influenced him, mostly.
But the people have spoken.
The religious executive people that is.
Well, the religious executive people and [...]

If you followed key phrases in the blogosphere you’d think there had been a major revival.
Actually, Bloglines does track trends and key phrases, and this is what they are seeing.
Judging by three of today’s top four key phrases, you’d think the country was undergoing some sort of national spiritual revival. But the sudden prevalence of [...]

Here in the true north strong and free, I’m watching summer slip away early.
Bees and wasps are in their aggressive mode, treetops are turning colour, tomatoes aren’t ripening, birds are eating everything they can as they prepare for flight…summer has seemed very short this year. I want to watch the shooting stars, and marvel at [...]

Did you notice while reading blogs this week that the ads at the top of the platform Blog*Spot are gone?
Good. The ads were annoying. Some were incongruous to the content of the blogs.
Google redesigned Blogger in May, offering users more template designs.
The new navbar has a Google SiteSearch box to search the blog you’re [...]

Over a year ago I came across a blog called i took the red pill.
It was beautifully laid out.
Iphy (Renee Altson) is a writer. I mean the kind of person meant to write, not the kind of person trained to. Some people are just meant to write. I’ve since learned that that is exactly what [...]

The Evangelical Outpost is running a series of posts entitled Know Your Evangelicals.
I’m getting a kick out of it. Person number seven is up. I haven’t gone back in the series to see why Joe has picked these particular people, but I have noticed they have some things in common.
a) They are highly educated US [...]

For those of us who have never lived in a city with a population base over a few million - cities like San Paulo Brazil seem uncomprehensible.
18 million people live in San Paulo.
It’s difficult to understand how a city that size is manageable.
Elections are being held in Brazil in October and this lively BBC peice [...]