AN UGLY WORD
Here's a word I hope doesn't catch on, as used in Entrepreneur magazine:
"When new hires are onboarded at iCracked..."
When they're fired, are they made to walk the plank?
NICELY WRITTEN
Written by Joan Acocela in The New Yorker in a review of Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games
"There is a certain kind of theatrical spectacle at loose today--think Cirque du Soleil or the Olympics opening ceremony--that unites such things as videos of white stallions, great belches of flame, and what look to be projections of H-bomb tests with squads of women who appear to hail from cosmetics ads. To judge from the song lyrics, all the people involved have a 'dream,' and it eventually comes true, for optimism is as central as hyperbole to this genre."
ONLINE SECURITY TIP
A lot of sites use "What was the name of your first pet?" as a security question. The problem is that we tend to be pretty unimaginative in naming our first pets, so it's not hard for hackers to get a match if they run a list of typical pet names. I've forgotten where I've read this tip, but the suggestion was to make your answer the name of your favorite author instead. The odds are small that hackers will have Mark Twain or Kurt Vonnegut or Margaret Atwood on their list of pet names.
LEAST COMPELLING CONTEST PRIZE OF THE MONTH
"Win a fact-finding forest trip to a European paper mill" ...(but if this does excite you, go to www.twosides.info/competition).
