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		<title>Guest Post: Word of the Day: Brooklyn Hit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Editor's note: Today's guest post is by Lauren Bans, http://www.laurenbans.com.] In this life, you will meet people who do activities because they enjoy doing them, and people who do activities because the activities like them back. You might also meet people with horrific handicaps who are incapable of activity. If I hadn’t already adapted my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Word of the Day: Boustrophedon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[boustrophedon (n.): a system of writing in which successive lines read in opposite directions, as left-to-right alternating with right-to-left.  (also adj., adv.) &#8220;Boustrophedon&#8221; isn&#8217;t a word that gets a ton of play these days, as you might imagine.  It comes directly from the Greek boustrophedon, meaning &#8220;turning like an ox in plowing,&#8221; from bous, meaning ox [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joehankin.com/blog/2008/12/word-of-the-day-boustrophedon/</link>
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		<title>Word of the Day: Kayfabe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[kayfabe (n.): the portrayal of events in professional wrestling as &#8220;real,&#8221; including the efforts expended to present match outcomes as not predetermined and to show non-wrestling plot points such as interviews and backstage encounters as unstaged. Howdy!  Long time no talk.  How&#8217;ve you been?  Obama, woo. My friend Jeremy and I were watching professional wrestling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joehankin.com/blog/2008/12/word-of-the-day-kayfabe/</link>
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		<title>Word of the Day: Epizootic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[epizootic (adj.): affecting many animals of one kind at the same time. compare EPIDEMIC Doesn&#8217;t this word sound made up? I saw it for the first time ever in this week&#8217;s New Yorker, in a Talk of the Town piece by John Cassidy, in which he described the recent rash of Wall Street calamities as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joehankin.com/blog/2008/09/word-of-the-day-epizootic/</link>
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		<title>Word of the Day: GrouSu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GrouSu (n.): group suicide New York City likes to call itself a &#8220;City of Neighborhoods,&#8221; and it&#8217;s certainly true that between the ethnic enclaves, specialized commercial districts, and salient manmade geographical features, the city is broken into pieces that have clear character and distinctive attributes &#8212; a walk from the West Village across town to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joehankin.com/blog/2008/09/word-of-the-day-grousu/</link>
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		<title>Word of the Day: Mundane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[mundane (adj.): characterized by human affairs, concerns, and activities that are often practical, immediate, transitory, and ordinary.  From Old French mondain, from Latin mundus, world I&#8217;ve been told that everyone dreams, every night, without fail, and that the sensation of dreamless sleep is merely the dreamer not remembering any of his or her dreams upon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joehankin.com/blog/2008/09/word-of-the-day-mundane/</link>
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		<title>Word of the Day: Touchtype</title>
		<description><![CDATA[touchtype (v.): to type without needing to look at the keys I&#8217;m writing this blog post from my iPhone, because I&#8217;m watching tv and I&#8217;m too lazy to go all the way to my bedroom to get the laptop. Shut up. I&#8217;m sick. I type very fast &#8212; like 100 words per minute &#8212; and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joehankin.com/blog/2008/09/word-of-the-day-touchtype/</link>
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		<title>Word of the Day: Ambiance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ambiance (n.): a surrounding or pervading atmosphere; environment; milieu How does one go about lighting a room?  I&#8217;ve lived in this apartment for over two years and my bedroom is lit only by one profoundly crappy IKEA torchiere and two desk lamps, one on my desk, one on my nightstand, each of which currently holds a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joehankin.com/blog/2008/09/word-of-the-day-ambiance/</link>
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		<title>Word of the Day: Brand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[brand (n.): a class of goods identified by name as the product of a single firm or manufacturer. also, a mark made by burning with a hot iron to attest manufacture or quality or to designate ownership That&#8217;s right! I had never put two and two together and associated modern-day &#8220;branding&#8221; using logos and publicists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joehankin.com/blog/2008/08/word-of-the-day-brand/</link>
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		<title>Word of the Day: Hubris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[hubris (n.): overweening pride or self-confidence; arrogance. from Gr. hybris, wantonness, arrogance, insolence. I don&#8217;t think there has ever been a more literal demonstration of the proverb &#8220;pride goeth before a fall&#8221; (video). (From AP drummer and douche-beating connoisseur Amit Wehle.)]]></description>
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