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Most annoying phrases

It's THAT time of the year again: time for publishing lists that include phrases like "Top 10" and "the year 2008" in their titles. The makers of the Oxford English Dictionary recently announced their picks for Top 10 Most Irritating Phrases in... (From The English Teacher Blog) [More]

Student ethics

"Students lie, cheat, steal," the headline in my local newspaper reads, "but say they're good." The story by AP National Writer David Crary presents the results of a recent Josephson Institute Center for Youth Ethics survey of 29,760 high school... (From The English Teacher Blog) [More]

A Shakespearean Carol?

With Thanksgiving weekend, we have officially entered the holiday season. We’ll try to overlook the fact that department stores have had their holiday decorations up since August and radio stations have been playing seasonal music since... (From The Shakespeare Blog) [More]

Hamlet Gets A-Head

A rather unusual story popped up that managed to link two of the greatest dramatists in the history of the theatre. In the piece, the writer admits that he mistakenly believed that the much-discussed production of Shakespeare's Hamlet starring... (From The Shakespeare Blog) [More]

Congratulations to President Elect Barack Obama

In an historic election, Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States of America. Discuss the election in the Law and Politics group. (From eNotes News Blog) [More]

Reading against poverty.

Blog Action Day, in which millions of blogs took action against poverty, happened last week. My site took a holiday (okay, I forgot). Here's what I'd like to show you. Excerpts: What the hell, you got a room in your house just filled with... (From eNotes Book Blog) [More]

Scraping Wikipedia tables with Google Spreadsheets

This is totally awesome. Basically, Google Spreadsheets has a new function: you can type "importHtml" and auto-import a table of data from any URL -- for example, ... (From The Wikipedia Blog) [More]