忙しいほど幸せ sounds beautiful. Help me break it down, letter by letter. Sing the beauty of the strokes, the words, and their meaning. (I don’t really mean sing. I mean, write in a way that’d really make me appreciate the beauty. But without going overboard. I mean, some wicked humor is always welcome! In fact, I’d love for you to think about who are some of the best authors who achieve this balance, and write in THEIR style.) ...
5 different stories about how Google was named Google. This is mentioned as the probably correct version: “Lucas Pereira: ‘You idiots, you spelled [Googol] wrong!’ But this was good, because google.com was available and googol.com was not. Now most people spell ‘Googol’ ‘Google’, so it worked out OK in the end.” Comments OverSkies 11 Dec 2008 8:29 am: Google’s founder’s son’s first words were : google.That is why they named it google
Asimov’s Foundation was translated into Arabic. Title: Al-Qaeda. The Guardian explores the link between Asimov and bin Laden.
The etymology of hello.
Always wondered what sic meant. Thought it was something to do with sic(k) jokes.
What does your name mean? More info about asian names.
Cliches. Tells you what cliches like ass backwards mean.
Word detective traces the origins of strange words. For instance, Yahoo means an ignorant brute. Hamburgers have nothing to do with ham – they’re so called because they come from Hamburg, Germany. Beefeaters are the guards at the The Tower of London (Yeomen guards). Word detective doesn’t know why they’re called that, but I can confirm first-hand that the Yeomen guards don’t know why themselves.