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Photolurking, blog streaking and cheesepodding: The new Internet addictions
Saturday, December 30th, 2006
The Internet has given birth to a quirky range of modern addictions and maladies, the British weekly New Scientist says in its Christmas issue published this Saturday.They include these:
- EGO-SURFING: When you frequently check your name and reputation on the Internet.
- BLOG STREAKING: “Revealing secrets or personal information online which for everybody’s sake would be best kept private.” - CRACKBERRY: “The curse of the modern executive: not being able to stop checking your BlackBerry, even at your grandmother’s funeral.”
- GOOGLE-STALKING: Defined as “snooping online on old friends, colleagues or first dates.”
- CYBERCHONDRIA: “A headache and a particular rash at the same time? Extensive online research tells you it must be cancer.”
- PHOTOLURKING: Flicking through a photo album of someone you’ve never met.
- WIKIPEDIHOLISM: Excess devotion to contributing to the online collaborative encyclopaedia, Wikipedia. (Wikipedia even has a page where you can test whether you’re an addict: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Are-You-a-Wikipediholic-Test)).
- CHEESEPODDING: Downloading of a song “so cheesy that you could cover it in plastic wrap and sell it at the deli counter.” Cheesepodders are especially vulnerable to soft-rock favourites from the 1970s. - AFP/sh
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Why is a ship called a “SHE” ?
Friday, December 29th, 2006
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“Manure” (Believe it or not ?) - Origin of the S-word
Friday, December 29th, 2006
In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship. It was also before the invention of commercial fertilizer, so large shipments of manure were common. It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, it not only became heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of which a by-product is methane gas.As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you could see what would (and did) happen. Methane began to build up below decks and the first time someone came below at night with a lantern, BOOOOM!
Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was determined just what was happening. After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the term “Ship High In Transit” on them, which meant the sailors should stow it high enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not come in contact with this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.
Thus evolved the colloquialism for manure as we know it today having come down through the centuries. You probably did not know the true history of this word. Neither did I - I always thought it was a golf term!
Source :- http://www.nauticalinstitute.ca/
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Unfounded optimism or necessary motivation to go on ?
Friday, December 29th, 2006
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
– Joan Didion once wrote, to explain the unfounded optimism human beings display. Good stories make the world more bearable. Inevitably, therefore, we want to tell - and be told - stories that make us feel better, even if that means that we don’t get as complete a picture we need.
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