found_drama

at Yahoo! News (via JH)

at The Boston Globe

via JH:

I find it interesting that we are able to understand a message or meaning from a phrase that should not be taken literally.

Keeping flagged for when I re-read (again? so soon?) within the next year or so.

via 7Days

at Infinite Summer (via PL)

at Luo.ma (via DF): useful stuff (and well-written); my favorite bit:

Which means I was getting very little of the 802.11n-goodness. When I was growing up, “Does Not Work Up To His Potential” was the most devastating of all report-card notes. You could be forgiven for not getting an “A” but you had to at least put in the effort.