I’ve posted before about the ethical questions surrounding “virtual” pornography, (especially virtual child pornography). That is, artificial representations of people (or animals) having sex. No real person was having sex, or in any way abused or humiliated. I can see arguments on both sides, and I don’t know what the shrinks say (if they say […]
Archive | December, 2008
Additions to the Oxford English Dictionary
“Big Whoop” is now defined in the OED. They always have quotes for each word, showing how it was used in a published article. In this case they include a quote from comp.unix.questions, a Usenet group. Nothing interesting about the quote, but it’s very interesting to me that they accept Usenet as a published source.
Smart Men Have Better Sperm
See for yourself.
Zuleika, Clio, and My Lovely Dictionary
Finished Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm, last night. (My copy was expensive, but you can read it online!) It’s a completely silly story (in a good way) about events that supposedly happened at Oxford University in the early 1900s. It’s got some extremely funny bits, and lots of amusing scenarios and wordplay. Several times, the […]