And as a bonus, a lot of them are really unique too. Some have historically been used for a particular gender, and others have always been around for their nonbinary potential. So yes, this is your cue to toss those outdated color coded baby-name books that your mom dusted off (and,...
No, the name of this City of London street, which runs between Godliman Street and Addle Hill just to the south of St Paul’s Cathedral, has nothing to do with the TV series of the 1980s starring David Hasselhoff (although there is a very tenuous connection – more on that in a momen...
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The ephemeral nature of political clubs in San Francisco at this time is head-spinning and hard to document 135 years later, but there was one consistent theme in the fall of 1888: the exclusion of the Chinese and the passage of the Scott Act, which expanded the powers of the Chinese Exc...
Computer networks, in any real sense, didn’t exist until the ARPANET was built starting in 1969. The initial idea of the internet is credited as being Leonard Kleinrock’s after he published his first paper entitled “Information Flow in Large Communication Nets” on May 31, 1961. Read More...
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Are you drawn to Pun Shop Names? If so, take the kids here for drawing classes. Spotted by Daniel Foster in Marrickville NSW. I’d heard tales of this rare beast, but had never seen one in the flush. Ugh. It’s going straight into the Hall of Fame – problem is, who sent it?
So, it got me thinking: what are some of the Yakima Valley’s weirdest and funniest street names? Who knows them? And how do I find out?!I know of several examples from around the Northwest like ‘Toe Jam Hill Road’ which is named for a tall hill in Kitsap County named, uh, not...
In which freelance writer Malcolm Wyatt jealously guards his own corner of web hyperspace, featuring interviews, reviews and rants involving big names from across the world of music, comedy, literature, film, TV, the arts, and sport.