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(Pre) FTRW 2013 – On Offensive Words

Freedom to Read Week starts next week but since a couple of my colleagues my colleagues were on CTV Morning Live today promoting RPL’s various offerings (including a

We’re With Weir? #skndpldr

Erin Weir’s campaign sent out an e-mail blast today entitled “Why We’re With Weir” which lists excerpts from various supporters and endorsers. Pretty standard stuff that we’ve seen

Auto-Antonym…

…is a word with a homograph (a word of the same spelling) that is also an antonym (a word with the opposite meaning). The more you know!

The Day Obama Won The Internet: The Inside Story of His Reddit AMA

Very interesting behind-the-scenes look at how Obama’s Reddit AMA was proposed, how it happened and how it impacted his campaign. This was a day of political-campaign and Internet

Friday Fun Link – 2012 in Four Minutes

I’m not sure whether to be proud or sad that I caught the vast majority of the references in this video… (If you prefer text links, this one

“Literacy Privilege: How I Learned To Check Mine Instead of Making Fun of People’s Grammar on the Internet”

Got involved in a discussion today which led to this article about a repentant “Grammar Nazi” who realised that her judging of people who had bad spelling and

2012 “End-of-Year Questions” Meme: Hawaiian Paradise, Kindergarten Kid, and “It’s (Going To Be) A Girl”

1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Saw a photo of the brain of someone I know! Shea’s nephew has had a variety

Pube Juice

This is kind of dumb but for some reason, Shea and I were absolutely killing ourselves reading these out loud tonight!

Five Differences Between Christmas Concerts For Pace and The Elementary School-Aged Me

Pace had his first Christmas concert (actually “concerts” – see #5 below) today. That got me thinking about the ways they’ve changed since I was a kid. [Edit:

I Am (Not) Adam Lanza’s Mother

This blog post by the mother of a mentally-ill son, posted in the wake of the Connecticut shootings, was making the viral rounds. Although I found it an

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