Everyword is a “bot” Twitter account that is currently using a collection of 109,229 words that are slowly dripping into the Everyword Twitter feed. It’s rare that a word on the account gets a lot of Re-Tweets or favorites on Twitter, most people just watching them trickle by, but the “P” section of the dictionary — which apparently contains a majority of NSFW words — seems to be getting a lot of attention. Continue reading →

I’ve never been very good at taking tests.

My A.D.D. usually kicked in after the fourth of fifth question and I had more fun daydreaming about how I could land a plane if the pilot suffered a stroke, saving hundreds of beholden passengers, than plodding through a list of multiple choice questions.

This all changed in the summer of 1992. Continue reading →