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I find the same with botanic and botanical. <i>Literally</i> is like a funny sort of harness, when words and phrases start shifting semantically I see <i>literally</i> as an attempt to dry it out and keep a meaning close and simple.

Not sure, maybe they would list both variations?

Oh no, the spread of tomoz... A girl I know who is originally from NZ works for the Oxford Press, she is working on getting 'munted' added to the Oxford Dictionary, which would be good.

That bit about the people infected with spores which compel them to climb higher and then have their heads explode etc. is based on an actual fungus which has that effect on a particular sort of ant.

The word dude. The Melbournian predilection for replacing the last syllable with a z. Tomoz. Whatevz. The spread of commercially motivated catch phrases - I 'heart', etc. Anything that is derived from sex in the city. I would be glad in my heart to see any or all of these tendencies quashed from...

Rogue waves 'Taken by Phillipe Lijour, the first mate of the super-tanker <i>Esso Languedoc</i>, during a storm off Durban, South Africa in 1980, the photo records a wall of water the size of an eight-storey building crashing over the deck of the ship. (For reference, the mast seen at the back...

Lots of bands in Melbourne send off and get vinyl masterings/pressings done at <a href="http://www.gzcd.com/en/index2.html" target="_blank">GZ Vinyl Pressing</a> in the Czech Republic. Cheaper and better quality to send off to GZ than to get things pressed locally here.

The Re:Search book of Pranks makes me laugh out loud.

Hopefully biodiverse ecosystems will establish themselves naturally in urban-ish areas whether taxpayers like it or not, albeit in different configurations to natural ecosystems. It seems as though when any given wild/native animal does find a means of existence in a city, it not only survives...

Waikiki Beach in Hawaii is a black volcanic beach at heart, but shipfuls of white sand were taken there from Newcastle, Australia and laid down for fear that black sand would deter tourists.