Daily Briefing

What's New?

On 2/8, I added a link to AccuWeather on the online news page since it looks like another storm is headed our way.

I've added more pages, and things are pretty much the way they're gonna be on the main site. The Politics page has also been redesigned with a similar look. I'll start updating the candidate ranks once it's a little more clear as to who's in and who's out.

This winter's been a cold one so far and, on Feb. 2, Phil predicted six more weeks. If you need a reminder of what spring looks like, a trip to Longwood Gardens should serve the purpose just fine.

Word of the Year

A panel of linguists has decided the word that best reflects 2009 is tweet which refers to a short message sent via twitter.com. It can also be used as a verb to indicate the sending of such a message.

In keeping with the technology theme, the panel selected google as the Word of the Decade. Like tweet, google can be used as a noun or a verb. As a noun, Google refers to the powerful Internet search engine. It's also used as verb to mean "search the Internet," even if a search engine other than Google is used.

The American Dialect Society chose the Word of the Year and the Word of the Decade on January 8, 2010 at its meeting in Baltimore. Other words receiving votes for WOTY included H1N1 and public option. Nominees for Word of the Decade included blog, text and war on terror.

You can read the entire news release here.