http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=LHQEZQ2GDYWMBQFIQMGCFFOAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/21/wcruise121.xml

A respected German historian has compared a speech by actor Tom Cruise to the Church of Scientology with a call to war by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

Thanks to Lyndoman via Digg.

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2008/01/one-word.html

Suppose you had to pick one word to describe yourself. Your first reaction, I assume, is that it is impossible. You are so many different things, in so many different contexts. No one word can capture more than a tiny slice.

Now suppose I ask you to think of people you know, and see how many of them you can describe in one word. Suddenly it gets a lot easier. He’s a jerk, she’s hot, he’s a loser, she’s a nerd, etc.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/heiwa4126/1803483279/in/set-72157601748358359/

http://dexterwiki.sho.com/?wpcmp=cpcbs1&t=anon

A Dexter Wiki

http://people.scs.fsu.edu/~burkardt/fun/wordplay/autoanto.html

“An autoantonym is a word or phrase which “contradicts itself”; that is, has two distinct meanings, which are opposite. Such words are sometimes called “Janus words”, after the two-headed Roman god, or “antagonyms” or “contranym”.”

This list is bad.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1704683,00.html

The revival of a Christian four-part choral style called Sacred Harp (the name refers to the human voice and a songbook published in 1844). Once America’s dominant religious music, it was eclipsed after the Civil War. By 1960, say scholars, as few as 1,000 people clustered in the Deep South knew the style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvhiGwbZ-2A

It would be funny if he didn’t go Australian once he said more than two words.

http://comsulea.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/with-tigana-we-could-have-been-like-arsenal/

“With Tigana, we could have been like Arsenal”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/18/nemi118.xml

The Rolling Stones have painted it even blacker for EMI, as they became the latest band to sever links with the beleaguered British record label.

The band have signed an exclusive recording agreement to release their next album (a one off deal for the soundtrack CD to Martin Scorsese’s film Shine A Light) through a rival and will not renew their contract when it expires in May.

The move marks the end of a 16-year collaboration, which has earned EMI more than 3 million a year.

http://www.dezeen.com/2008/01/10/manned-cloud-by-jean-marie-massaud