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Nancy Friedman at <A HREF="http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/"><I>Away With Words</I></A> guides us to the Coleman Partners website for a well-written essay called "Marketing & the English Language: A Guide to Better Communication," which is worth reading. Ms. Friedman does warn that the site's design is too clever by half, so you'll have to click on the external link, then click "Explain," and the click "Logical" to get to the "off-white papers," of which there are at present, just the one.

Well, only stuff that's a fraction of a millimeter square and only for one ten thousand millionth of a second&mdash;but that's a start.

<I>The Canadian Medical Association Journal</I> publishes "Acquired growth hormone deficiency and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in a subject with repeated head trauma, or Tintin goes to the neurologist." Mmm hmmm.

Walking to the train this morning I saw a woman who was a dead ringer for Sara Carter, wife of A.P. Carter, whose leaving to marry A.P.'s cousin Coy torpedoed the famous Carter Family.

The fax machine is singing its song. Beep bloop beep bloop bleep beep beep. And bloop. It goes on and on. Kristina feeds the machine and the machine eats, requests for verification on pricing and availability of amps and speakers, tonearms and cartridges, accessories and racks and so much more. "Recommended Components" is singing its song. Swoosh and whir.

I've been checking out the Creative Commons&ndash;licensed MP3s at <I>Musikethos</I>. If you dig classical music, you'll find a lot to admire there.

As anyone who has talked me me even briefly over the last month knows, I loved reading <I>King Dork</I>. It's a young adult novel that's one-half rant against <I>Catcher In the Rye</I>, one-half spoof of <I>The Da Vinci Code</I>, and one-half Encyclopedia Brown in the 21<SUP>st</SUP> Century. Yeah, I know that adds up to more than one, but that's how good it is. It's also very knowing about rock trivia and absolutely spot-on about what it feels like to be an "uncool" teen.