mmalone

mmalone has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 2 lists, listed 275 words, written 4 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 0 words.

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mmalone commented on the word swingline

mollusque: the anvil rotates so you can use the stapler for "pinning." For example, you could staple a piece of paper to a cork board... seems like a useful enough feature, is that what you were asking?

January 24, 2008
mmalone commented on the word nena

The land around us (syn: nuna)

January 8, 2008
mmalone commented on the word rodinia

Russian for "homeland"

January 8, 2008
mmalone commented on the word skein

A message sent from the White House took only twelve minutes to come back to the transmitting telegraphers, having circumnavigated the planet via a now fully connected skein of cables, and at what was then a barely imaginable speed.
- Winchester, Simon (2005). A Crack in the Edge of The World. HarperCollins.

December 28, 2007

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