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As ever, using Fête St-Jerôme as an excuse to post an Eddie Izzard bootleg* *(Dear Eddie: Massive, massive respect for your ever-increasing ...

I emailed an ebay seller asking how much shipping to Canada would cost. Seller quotes an amount, I bid accordingly and win. Then I get a s...

A recurring theme during this recession is that they should teach financial literacy in high school. Of course, adding mandatory courses is...

Voting for Project 10 to the 100 is finally open! You can vote here! I'm trying to decide which one to vote for. Obviously my first th...

But not nearly as difficult as this guy . This is why I hope to be able to stick to written translation for my entire career.

Sometimes in the Star's Acts of Kindness and other good deed stories, you there are stories where someone's in trouble and only one ...

I was walking down the street, wearing a skirt and blouse (no jacket) and carrying a large purse with my raincoat draped over it. Some guy s...

When trying to explain the value of using target language native speaker translators, or of having translation services available even to pe...

Some of my tools are accent-blind (i.e. they read ou and où the same) and others are accent-sensitive (i.e. they read ou and où as two diffe...

I just realized that it was 10 years ago that I started university. Here's some things I wish I'd known then: - Do half an hour of ...

This post was triggered by, but is completely unrelated to, this Language Log post about self-reported happiness studies. Last night my glas...

(H/T Poodle)

The cool kids in high school. You only ever heard them spoken of as Other (at least in my corner of the world and of the internet). Is ther...

I noticed recently that whenever I bite into a peach (even one that has been sitting on the counter at room temperature for several days), t...

Just think about this, quietly and to yourself, for as long as you need to: Are you, personally, certain that you have all the sexual organs...

Apparently the quality of used vehicles is improving. Interesting! Useful, if you're in the market for a used car! But why does the use...

Via David Olive , a chart of US health insurance premium projections . The general thesis is "OMG, they're going to get so high!...

1. I don't appreciate this by-election being made into a referendum on the HST. The HST simply isn't important enough to me to mak...

September 15 (which is just starting right about now in the UK) is the last day of Eddie's run. He's going to end up in Trafalgar S...