cankle n. A thick ankle, particularly one that appears to be a continuation of the calf.
Example Citations:
Montana wants to get rid of her “cankles” — ankles as thick as calves.
—Kerrie Murphy, “Class clown trails pack,” The Weekend Australian, January 10, 2004
Earliest Citation:
What’s the first thing you notice in a woman? Whether she has cankles or not. Cankles are where your calves slide right down into your ankles.
—Charean Williams, “Q&A … With Mike Vanderjagt,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, September 10, 2000
H/T Word Spy
Categories: Word of the Day
Tagged: Cankle
The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies publish a Top 100 Productivity & Learning Tools
This made me think about my personal Top 10….summarised below
1> Google Search
How did I manage without this premier search engine in the past. It’s simple, quick and always comes up with something helpful
2. WordPress
If you want to get into blogging this the way to go. It’s a free, unlimited open source blogging platform. Very easy to navigate, easy to use interface which is being upgraded continuously.
3. Windows Live Writer
Integrates seamlessly with WordPress for creating & editing a blog post. Can blog from anywhere with this free, WYSIWYG editor/creator.
4. Wikipedia
Simply brilliant one stop, free, reference source for nearly everything on the planet. The quality & accuracy of the content is maturing everyday
5. Adobe Acrobat Professional
Adobe pdf documents have become the format of choice where both document security & collaboration is required. Great for large complex documents and easily accommodates embedded hypertext, video & audio. Commercial software from Adobe, not cheap but worth it!
6. Furl
The best tool I’ve come across for book marking web based research sources and web sites. Free
7. Abby pdf Transformer
If you work with pdf documents and Office documents this is an essential tool. Enables conversion of pdf documents to Office formats (& retains original formatting) & vice versa. Commercial software.
8. Google Scholar
Great tool for research of scholarly literature & reference materials. Doesn’t yet provide universal access but still a first choice research tool. Free
9. Mind Manager
If like me you need to capture and organise project related items or, you just need to capture and organise thoughts, projects or, scribbled plans this intuitive tool is for you. Commercial software
10. Survey Monkey
Wonderful tool for designing professional looking questionnaires, polls etc. Nothing like it for social science surveys or democracy enhancing polls of citizens views. Web based commercial product. Highly intuitive.
Categories: Personal · Technology · Top 100 · Web
Tagged: Search, Performance, Google Search, Enhancing, Tools, Scholar, Wordpress, Live Writer, Wikipedia, Adobe, Acrobat.Abb, Mind Manager, Survey Monkey
Don’t ya just love the Texans? They have a way of looking at the world which is ….well it’s just different!
Garrett Durning of the Texas Environmental Defense League has spent the last three months campaigning tirelessly for the installation of solar-powered electric chairs in state prisons. “Texas wastes more than 500,000 watts of electricity on every criminal it executes,” Durning told reporters Monday. “We live in the 21st century, and it’s high time we acted like it. Let’s stop depleting our non-renewable fossil fuels. Solar power is a more energy-efficient way to execute the condemned.
“Old Sparky” just won’t look the same with solar panels attached!
Note: Texas leads the US nation in the number of executions since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. THIS TABLE shows the total number of executions by State since 1976 and also specifically for 2007 & 2008.
Categories: Climate Change · Environment · Global Warming
Tagged: Electric Chair, energy, Execution, Power, Solar
