racism The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has officially changed the definition of "racism." Thom Dunn

dictionary Get a paper dictionary Rob Beschizza

dictionary 'Single-use' edges out 'VAR,' 'floss,' 'gammon,' and 'plogging' as this dictionary's word of the year Rusty Blazenhoff

Culture Learn when a word was first used in print with Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler feature Rusty Blazenhoff

books How do new words get in the dictionary? Andrea James

words Meh, cisgender, jeggings, and other new words added to the Oxford English Dictionary David Pescovitz

Gadgets LingvaNex is like Google Translate on steroids. And its abilities are pretty amazing. Boing Boing's Shop

gothic More virtual tourism: Take a tour of beautiful Bran Castle in Romania Gareth Branwyn

Technology Hackers say they breached Russian contractor, got details on IoT hacking project for Russia spy agency Xeni Jardin

guns A fascinating computer analysis of the linguistic context around the 2nd Amendment Thom Dunn

State of Kentucky must pay $150,000 to man with "IM GOD" license plate following First Amendment suit David Pescovitz

books A profile of Cliff "Cuckoo's Egg" Stoll, a pioneering "hacker hunter" Cory Doctorow

language The Merriam-Webster dictionary's word of the year is… David Pescovitz

security Welsh password generator Rob Beschizza

happy mutant I chatted with Danny Elfman about his new MasterClass, and his ventriloquist dummy "Buddy" Rusty Blazenhoff

animals The Irish language has the best weird translations of common animal names Thom Dunn

mistakes Here's what happened when Mythbusters let bulls loose in a china shop John Struan

emotional boosts If you want to make yourself feel better, look up your first name on Urban Dictionary Mark Frauenfelder

History alt.interoperability.adversarial Cory Doctorow