Converts anything to anything... as long as it isn't Apple pages documents, of course.

When searching on a web page for something that has a particular case e.g. a proper name [How] that is the same as a common word [how]. If you never search on pages for things like that then I wouldn't bother with it.

Why are you FB friends with "a guy [you] went on a couple OKCupid dates with two years ago" or with your "mom's neighbors's daughter". This is your fault, not theirs. If you don't want a bunch of crap from all and sundry then don't "friend" all and sundry.

If there's a market then it's all good. If they can't sell it and make money then it won't last.

Portmanteaus are like that, you either hate them (and most people do) or you don't mind them. Old portmanteaus are different because most people aren't aware that that's what they are and are simply just a word that they use. In 90 years if phablet is still in use, which is a pretty unlikely scenario, no one will know…

My mom used to make baked Alaska all the time as an "incredible dessert" for parties. It's actually very easy but it has a similar "how in the world..." kind of response from people.

Don't be a rectangle? I'm not familiar with that one.

Cronuts the breakfast of champions or something. Here's an interesting article about cronuts http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

Yes. I guess the term geek may have evolved but it seems to me it's someone with an overweening interest in something. Given that, why are there no sections for classical music, beer or paleontology?

But the % of African Americans in those states is also higher than other states generally so it may be a lot of "ebony" folks looking for pictures of other "ebony" folks.

Yes I love social fixer. I wish there was a way it could be used on my phone app though.

They're not at all litigious in Japan? Wow. I can imagine this could result in real PTSD even if it wasn't actually a gun incident.

There are would be few if any negative consequences to the natural ecosystem if all cats magically disappeared overnight.

So a kind of deadman's switch app would be in order for those that this might be an issue. That is, if you don't sign into the app at some pre-decided interval it wipes the phone for you. As long as you back up your phone regularly an accident wouldn't be too catastrophic.

Most people call ground squirrels gophers but scientists don't because they're not gophers but squirrels.

Pretty much all cars have heated side views now. It's standard unless you've got a really low end machine.

Because to swear is to use something sacred blasphemously. Your so-called swears are simple vulgarities and not swears at all.

If you write in this genre it's part of it's signifier then? That is, it's done because others have done it or it's popular to do so and doesn't signify anything of import.

I worked in a long term care facility for many years. I noted that many of the elderly women had similarly deformed feet. I was baffled about this pathology until someone told me that these women had all worn high heel shoes for much of their working life. It may be that modern high heel shoes don't have the same…

This is pretty interesting, but it just points out that we're heading in the opposite direction now. Alas.