The Loco English Language

I think English is a loco language. Please read the following poem out loud. I dare you!
“I take it you already know,
Of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard, a [...]

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Photograph: Lack of Confidence

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Photograph: Big and Small Hippos

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Amazon is Crushing the 2G Kindle Rumor

We recently wrote that there are persistent rumors on the Internet that Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, is ready to launch a revamped Kindle sometime between September or October of this year.
Well the rumors were crushed by Amazon. According to a story covered by the New York Times, Amazon has publicly confirmed there will [...]

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Barak Obama’s Acceptance Speech at the Democratic National Convention

Below is a transcript of Barak Obama’s acceptance speech last night at the Mile High Stadium in Denver, Colorado as provided by CNNPolitics.com. According to CNN, this transcript was rendered by Obama’s campaign.
Nielsen Media Research said more people watched Obama speak than watched the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing, the final “American Idol” or [...]

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Restrained Appetite

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Yesterday Flock Released Patch 1.2.5

Yesterday afternoon, very discreetly, Flock released a maintenance patch identified as Version 1.2.5. According to their official web site, these are additions made to the popular social Web browser:

Users of the New Facebook pages can now set their status in the People Sidebar.
Drag and drop behavior to Facebook Wall posts in New Facebook pages is [...]

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Food as Works of Art

Most people think about eating when they see food served on the table. A rare few, see food as potential works of art. Such is the case of Sakurako Kitsa who ingeniously created “The Chocolate Saffragists” using 100 percent milk chocolate, molded and freeform-drawn, except for the clothing, which was made from homemade [...]

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Microsoft Internet Explorer Plays Catching Up Game With Its Peers

It’s been a while since Microsoft came up with Internet Explorer 7. In the meantime, Apple Safari, Opera and Mozilla Firefox have added a few goodies to their own Web browser. “Enough is enough,” said Steve Ballmer, and instructed its Redmond’s elves to start working on a newer web browser—Internet Explorer 8.
Internet experts [...]

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A Revamped Kindle is in the Pipeline

There are persistent rumors on the Internet that Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, is ready to launch a revamped Kindle sometime between September or October of this year.
Peter Burrows of The Tech Beat comments that:

“My sources say the new version is significantly thinner, has a better screen, is more stylish and includes fixes to some [...]

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