Uneasy Rhetoric

I expected the French press to be all over Zidane’s unfortunate action which caused him to be red carded late in yesterday’s World Cup final. I expected to see stories gleefully kicking a fallen hero when he’s down and blaming the loss on him and him alone. After all, don’t we need a [...]

Language Log reports on the Slut-o-Meter, which allows you to calculate a slut value for any given Google search, based on the number of results returned with Google’s safe search filtering on versus off.
The higher your number, the lower your slut value. For example, the search term uneasy rhetoric (no quotes) returns 13,833 results [...]

As I passed you not fifteen feet away, you were barking at the air, or so it seemed. The I heard that little voice buzzing in your ear. I heard it from fifteen feet away. I couldn’t quite make out what it said but was surprised when you said “what?”
You mean, you [...]

How is it that “Jedi” is in the SpellBound spellchecker for Firefox but “blog” isn’t? For that matter, neither is “Firefox” or “SpellBound.”