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From the Guardian’s “News in Brief” section:

“The Oxford University Press yesterday launched a poll to find “the word which represents the events or the moods of the 21st century”. The poll is for the OUP’s book The Language Report, which draws on the Oxford English Corpus - a database of current language from sources as varied as chat-room conversations and broadsheet newspapers, used by linguists and dictionary-makers as a new tool in charting language change. The Language Report’s own nominations for the best word or phrase include gingerism - prejudice against redheads - and prevenge - getting one’s retaliation in first”

A friend recently gave me a copy of Sublime magazine (which I really enjoyed, I’m already thinking about subscribing). It was the “Water Issue” and had some interesting articles on this most precious of resources (see “Magazine Preview > Issue 4 > Water Wars” on their website, no dedicated url unfortunately…). It also had some less serious articles, including a mention of the Innerspace Dolphin - a watercraft shaped like a Dolphin. Here’s a video clip from NBC’s Today Show:

No mention of them going into production yet which is a huge shame - as if you wouldn’t want to commute to work on those bad boys…