January 15, 2009
As I was browsing the Huffington Post earlier today, I came across this juicy little tidbit announcing that PETA wants to change the “name” of fish to sea kittens (after all, who would want to eat “sea kitten sticks”?). At first I thought it was a joke, but then I saw the post on the […]
October 21, 2008
Increases in storage technology are necessitating names for the ever-expanding amount of space available in computers. In the old days (pre-1990), a hard drive that could hold 40 MB (megabytes; 1 MB = 1000 KB) was considered big; now, many desktop models come with 40 GB (gigabytes; 1 GB = 1000 MB) of space. What’s […]