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Lexicographical Longing

Sun, 11 May 2008 23:00:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: in the Dictionary of Sailors’ Slang.)

Before the cooling in the ’90s of America’s passion for colossal encyclopedia sets (bought from door-to-door salesmen), and well before the advent of massless Wikipedia.org and Dictionary.com, the navy blue compact O.E.D. was part of the standard décor of a bookish middle-class life. I was overjoyed to have one of my own. Furthermore, my other totemic college books — “Speculum of the Other Woman,” “Reading Black, Reading Feminist” and “Sexuality in the Field of Vision” — could go out of style, maybe; the O.E.D. was forever. Wasn’t it?

No.

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Lexicographical Longing

When I was 19, my father gave me an Oxford English Dictionary, the 1971 compact edition with the 1987 supplement. Citations for every English word since the eighth century were crammed into three bulky volumes of minuscule print. I hallucinated before the speckled onion-skin pages until I discovered that the dictionary came with a magnifying glass.

That Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, Complete Text Reproduced Micrographically, I realize now, represented real magnanimity on the part of Oxford University Press. Until then, the O.E.D. could run to 13 volumes, suitable only for an antiquarian with plentiful shelf space and a feather duster. The compact dictionary, which people like my dad received free from the Book-of-the-Month Club, made showoff etymology accessible, affordable and even stashable for the first time in modest American rec rooms and dens. (“Rec room,” the online O.E.D. tells us, first appeared in 1962, in the

World's Tallest Horse Is Still Growing

Sun, 11 May 2008 15:11:28 GMT

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World's tallest horse is still growing

Noddy the Shire horse is a strapping lad. He weighs in at 1.3 tonnes and could one day tip the scales at 1.5 tonnes. He takes an eight-foot cover and his Australian owner is getting him used to a ladder to make getting into the saddle a little easier.

In short, Noddy has one mighty body.

Noddy, who has just turned five, is almost certainly the world's tallest horse, standing 20.1 hands at the withers. His height - that's 81 inches, or 2.057m - puts him a full inch (2.5cm) taller than Tina, a Shire horse officially listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's tallest.

It seems that Noddy's owner, Jane Greenman, has plenty more of Noddy to look forward to in the future: Heavy horses continue to grow to the age of seven and it is possible the gelding will put on another 200kg before he's fully grown.

Jane bought Noddy as a six-month-old foal when she became interested in training a heavy horse to do work around her 40-acre farm

Swimming On Horseback Is So Romantic!

Sun, 11 May 2008 14:41:48 GMT

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Swimming on horseback is so romantic!

9FF GT9 Only 409 km/h

Sun, 11 May 2008 13:44:51 GMT

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09 May
9FF GT9 almost breaks world speed record : 409 km/h

The current world record speed for the fastest production car was set by the SSC Ultimate Aero that topped at 255.83 mph which is 411.71 km/h. Recently the 9FF engineers tried to beat that with their modified GT9 but couldn’t do it. They only managed to make it run at 409 km/h at a track in Papenburg on 10th April.

9FF’s GT9 was based on the Porsche 911 GT3, but lower and longer. The interesting part is that the car has the engine in the middle (not the rear) for better weight distribution. Now that I mentioned the engine, the beast outputs 987 bhp from a 4L flax six twin turbo and a six-speed transmission.
Though they couldn’t beat the world record, 9FF guys can stand proud because they managed to take on the Bugatti Veyron which topped at 407 km/h. The GT9 however, is not as fast as the Veyron : 0 - 60 mph in 4.2 seconds.

Baby Car Logos

Sun, 11 May 2008 13:33:30 GMT

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Baby car logos advertising campaign for Minichamps

We’ve seen some great advertising campaigns in the auto industry and we’ve presented you, in the past, some of those. Now here’s another one, from Brazil, which is really awesome and I bet your first reaction will be “Awww, that’s so cute!”.

The prints, which show “baby versions” of some popular brand logos, like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati or Jaguar were created by Brazilian ad agency Dentsu for Minichamps, a die-cast miniature model producer. And we must say they’re pretty funny, especially the Jaguar kitten, the Ferrari horsey or the Lamborghini calf.

Check out the rest of the images after the jump.

Photo Gallery: Baby Car Logos Advertising Campaign

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Sun, 11 May 2008 13:03:33 GMT

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Lexicographical Longing

World's Tallest Horse Is Still Growing

Swimming On Horseback Is So Romantic!

Swimming on horseback is so romantic!

9FF GT9 Only 409 km/h

09 May9FF GT9 almost breaks world speed record : 409 km/h

Baby Car Logos

Baby car logos advertising campaign for Minichamps

Made Where..?

09 May
9FF GT9 almost breaks world speed record : 409 km/h