Ted, seems to me these movies are nothing BUT allusions...

Starship Troopers (the book, not the movie) has come true!

So a chocolate-covered raw onion tastes like raw onion and chocolate? Who would have guessed?

I wish the article had some citations; it says that a few of the cases were dismissed, but I'd like to know how they all turned out.

Jennings also has a trivia contest, via his blog, in which he sends out a weekly trivia e-mail on Tuesday mornings and people respond with the answers. He (or someone) keeps score, and every ten weeks or so the top scorer gets a signed copy of his book.

If you want to read a great book on Jeopardy!, check out Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy! by former champion Bob Harris. I found it a lot more enjoyable and instructive than Jennings's book Brainiac.

Zhoen, I think "trachea" is pretty well known, though some folks (like me) may have to think for a moment to remember which is "trachea" and which is "esophagus."

Interesting subject matter in that article, but it's ruined by the awful writing.

We're a long way from the point where everyone's got a keyboard handy at all times. I work on a computer all day and I still write things all the time: shopping lists, notes to coworkers, editing notations on documents, etc. These need to be legible, or else there's no reason writing them.

Also, I went to law school from 04-07, and I took all my class-notes by hand. As R Pies notes above, you can't easily do things like make diagrams and charts on a keyboard.

I remember that snowfall! I was about 5 or 6, living in Jacksonville, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

This appears to be a viral ad for Ray-Bans. The video is posted by "neverhidefilms," whose profile lists their Web site as http://www.ray-ban.com.

Also, I've seen a lot of stupid tattoos, but somehow I just can't believe that someone got glasses tattooed on his face. Even the dudes who tattooed their eyeballs: they're total idiots, but I can at least imagine how a certain aesthetic sensibility might think it's cool.

But not this. This looks idiotic. Maybe I'm just clinging to the naive hope that there's some lower limit to bad taste, but I can't bring myself to believe someone would actually get this tattoo.

I feel kind of silly for enjoying that as much as I did.

So the news is that people who consider tattoos to be "deviant" behavior also think that tattooed people engage in deviant behavior?

I'd like to see a definition of "deviant" in this article. If having had multiple sex partners makes someone a deviant, then most of us either are deviant or wish we were.

I read "The Sea Wolf" when I was about 11, and it was a big influence on me as a kid. I didn't know much about London's life story though; this was really fascinating.

These reactions are hilarious. Think with your brain instead of your gut, folks.

Great story.

Language isn't static, nor should it be. New words arise to fit speakers' changing needs. They get sorted out by natural selection, according to whether they stay useful once the novelty wears off. I doubt that "staycation" will be around long; I've never heard anyone say it without some kind of acknowledgment of its strangeness. I suspect that "friend," used as a verb, will have a pretty long life though, as social media on the Web seem to be here to stay.

@Dervid: I'd always been taught that "cities comprise neighborhoods," and not the other way around, but Merriam-Webster, at least, lists both uses and says the "neighborhoods comprise cities" sense has been in use at least since the 18th century.