Saturday, March 03, 2007
Some words of the day.
"Trebuchet" is a special example of mutual zugzwang; a game position where whichever player must move next will lose the game.Pukh is a fluffy pollen from balsam poplar trees that collects in drifts in Russian towns and starts fires. A popular topic for expat journos. True Muscovites are unimpressed: "In a country where women with doctorates are reduced to hooking for pennies and serial killers own the keys to half the country’s cities, Western journalists year after year somehow never fail to deem to deem newsworthy the botanical accident which leaves cottony pollen floating in their latte."And finally a word that provokes intense lethologia for me: petrichor, the smell of rain on dry ground.Labels: wotd
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