Link: http://www.nobledesktop.com/h/enews-121-aug-mid-2010.html#word

This week's word is murdelize.

As we understand the meaning from our Mid-Western roots, murdelize means “absolutely destroy” in many ways, such as “murdelize a plate of food” (devour it), or have one team murdelize another (crush them on the field). UrbanDictionary.com has a rougher version, meaning “to brutally murder, may involve disembowelment or cannibalism.” We think that is a little extreme; we'll take our definition. Try it out and let us know if it works in your conversation. Read more >>

Link: http://www.techeye.net/internet/scientists-claim-that-verdana-is-the-best-typeface

The latest research from the US says that the best typeface to see on your screen is Verdana.

The study, which was carried out by Vision Ergonomics Research Laboratory and funded by Microsoft, said that using the right font could saving your eyes and protect you from disorders like the computer vision syndrome (CVS).

Apparently Verdana was the best and it should be set between 10-12 points. Dr Jim Sheedy, the top boffin in charge of the project said that nearly half of Americans have some level of CVS.

He said if the text size is three times lesser than your threshold size, you would struggle to read the font.

This would make you lean forward to read clearly, which would then affect your body due to uncomfortable posture. Sheedy added that 60 to 90 percent of computer users experience eye and vision disorders associated with constant exposure to computers and similar electronic gadgets.

The most common common symptoms of CVS are tiredness, sore eyes, eye strain, dry eyes, red eyes, fatigue, repeated headaches, burning in eyes, pain in and around the eyes, glare sensitivity, difficulties in focusing, excessive tearing, contact lens discomfort, double vision, periodic blurring of near and distant vision, liking Craig David and death (we made the last two up).

While not being a cure for the illness, setting your font to Verdana will help. Apparently.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/19/climate-change-vuvuzela-oxford-dictionary

Other words and phrases introduced for the latest edition include 'toxic debt', 'staycation', 'cheesebal' and 'national treasure'

The World Cup in South Africa, climate change, the credit crunch and technology have all left their mark on the way we talk, the new edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English reveals, as the latest crop of new words to be added to its pages is published today.

Football fans will perhaps be unsurprised to learn that the vuvuzela, whose apian drone soundtracked yet another summer of hurt, has blared its way into the dictionary's pages. By being ushered into the dictionary, which is based on how language is really used, the metre-long plastic horn has cemented its immortality as well as its ubiquity. Read more >>

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100817/ap_on_re_us/us_mindset_list

For students entering college this fall, e-mail is too slow, phones have never had cords and the computers they played with as kids are now in museums.

The Class of 2014 thinks of Clint Eastwood more as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry urging punks to "go ahead, make my day." Few incoming freshmen know how to write in cursive or have ever worn a wristwatch.

These are among the 75 items on this year's Beloit College Mindset List. The compilation, released Tuesday, is assembled each year by two officials at this private school of about 1,400 students in Beloit, Wis.

The list is meant to remind teachers that cultural references familiar to them might draw blank stares from college freshmen born mostly in 1992. Read more >>

1. Tips for Yandex search: http://help.yandex.ru/search/?id=1111313.
It's just what the translator needs. Not sure if Google has these capabilities.

2. Glossaries sites:
http://www.slovotolk.com/
http://wikitran.ru/