Your Letters (BBC News)
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Sean Daly's Pop Life: The Lunch Lady Playlist, the 'spank bank' and George Strait and Yim Yames (St. Petersburg Times)
So I'm at the Kenny Chesney tailgate party a couple of weeks back, mingling with thousands of tan, healthy concertgoers. The young cowboys and gals are winking and drinking and stealing BlackBerry snaps of each other in various displays of ab-toned sass. And as I pass these American PYTs with their clicking cameras, I hear the same phrase over and over: "Spank bank!" Yeah, you read that right. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Gilberto Zaldívar, a Theater Founder, Dies at 75
Mr. Zaldívar was a co-founder of the Repertorio Espańol, New York City’s premiere Spanish-language theater company. nytimes.com |
Rizalian advice: âPutoc kong putocâ (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
âPutokâ is easy enough to explain to foreigners, although in Father Leo Englishâs monumental Tagalog-English dictionary, it occupies over a page of entries and choice sentences. English, for instance, makes a distinction between putok and âsabog,â which he defines as the sound of an explosion. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Unichal unveils portable, pocketable DIXAU DX3 dictionary (Engadget)
At first glance, this looks a tiny bit like a flip phone of yesteryear, sure. Closer inspection, however, will prove it to be... a tiny dictionary! Korean company Unichal's recently shown off its newest pocket dictionary , the DIXAU DX3. This tiny source of knowledge boasts a built-in camera which can scan unknown words and deliver definitions on the front facing stylus-enabled touchscreen. The ... us.rd.yahoo.com |