The following scenario attempts to describe a typical play on a typical Sunday here in America while watching an NFL game.

Play by play announcer: "He's at the twenty, cuts back across the field, the thirty, the forty! One man to beat, ooh what a hit! He took that helmet right in the breadbasket! I'm surprised he held on to the ball!

Commentator: " Yeah, that had to hurt. Looks like he's gonna be down for awhile"…

E2 Mobile Interface

Having recently acquired an iPhone, I was in equal measures impressed with the mobile interfaces on sites like Facebook, Texts from Last Night etc, and horrified by E2's interface.

E2's already-cluttered user interface degrades severely on a mobile device with a tiny screen, as well as suffering from the low bandwidth inherent in these devices and the CPU time needed to render all that extraneous…

This is a brigade-sized mechanized unit of the United States Army, originally formed in 1901 during the Philippine Insurrection as horse cavalry (more properly, dragoons/mounted infantry) and involved in the Punitive Expedition of 1916 but not World War I.

Reorganized as armored cavalry shortly after America entered World War II, the 11th was further reorganized and re-flagged as two tank battalions and a cavalry group headquarters, all of which saw action in the…

I've noticed something about the informal terms we use for sex, specifically the verbs, and more specifically the way we divide them into the dirty ones and the ones you can say in front of your mother. I'm not a linguist, so I'm not even sure if there is a technical distinction between these two kinds of verbs, but I've noticed that the polite and formal terms generally require a preposition, but the naughty or informal ones do not. Let me illustrate with two examples:

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