Sip of the Day - July 14, 2009

Sip of the Day - Refinancing and Student Loans

Titera's Tidbit: Cutting Edge
The sense of "cutting edge" as an agent of change, as in Ernst Mayr's scientific maxim, "Behavior is the cutting edge of evolution", owes to the British writer H.G. Wells. Mostly known for science fiction, Wells also wrote a history of the world, and he used the term to mean an outside force that changed a society, such as the introduction of Christianity to the Roman Empire.

Sippets:
· Best T-Shirt to Give to a Graduate
· Fast Food Made to Look Like Fine Dining
· Looking for Love, 650-Pound Virgin Loses 410
· Holey Plane 'Popped' Right in Front of Passengers
· Super Sip Software - Ultimate Windows Tweaker


World's Greatest Marriage Proposal?

Sip of the Day - July 10, 2009

Sip of the Day - HELOCs and Mortgages

Titera's Tidbit: O.K.
Efforts have been made to trace this term to an African original, okeh, but this all-American term comes from President Martin Van Buren, who served from 1837 to 1841. He approved documents with the initials "O.K.", which stood for his nickname, Old Kinderhook, after the New York town where he was born.

Sippets:
· Dude, You Are Doing It Wrong...
· Usually, Buildings Fall Down, This One Fell Over
· Mythbuster Tweets His Way Out of $11k Phone Bill
· Depeche Mode Cancels Last Two Shows of European Tour
· Super Sip Switch - How to Ease Your Transition to Google Voice


Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn

Sip of the Day - July 8, 2008

Sip of the Day - Rethink How You Use Credit

Titera's Tidbit: Soldier
In ancient Rome, a soldus was a coin, which is to say, something solid (solidus) and valuable. The word remains in the modern Italian word for money, soldi. Someone who fought in exchange for that coin was called a solidarius, the origin of our word.

Sippets:
· Finally! Gmail is No Longer in Beta
· Aren’t Those Ships a Little Too Close?
· Toyota Employees Caught on Tape Stealing
· Google Plans Operating System Based on Chrome
· Super Sip Search - Improving Real Estate Search on Google


Blast into Space, Spectacular Fall to Earth

Sip of the Day - July 6, 2009

Sip of the Day - Credit Card Limits Lowered

Titera's Tidbit: Swimmingly
"How did the presentation go?" "Swimmingly." Somewhat old-fashioned, this word doesn't mean that something took place in a pool, but instead that it caused heads to swim.

Sippets:
· Five Best Online Image Editors
· Wanna Get a Girl? Get a Wolf Shirt
· Amazing Lego Art by Nathan Sawaya
· World’s Oldest Christian Bible Digitized
· Super Sip Scenery - Paint Mines, El Paso County, Colorado


Looking Death in the Face

Sip of the Day - July 2, 2009

Sip of the Day - Improve Credit Score & Build a Cash Cushion

Titera's Tidbit: Obituary
In Latin, obire means "go to meet", particularly in the sense of going to meet one's maker, often specified as obire mortem, "to go to meet death". An obituarius was a notice that someone had died, the origin of the modern term with the same meaning.

Sippets:
· Now, This is a Very Creative Resume
· Dress Up Your Ties with the "Merovingian Knot"
· The Pirate Bay Sold To Software Company, Goes Legal
· List of Fireworks Shows in Colorado for the Fourth of July
· Super Sip Shooting - Big Cities at Night While Traveling Light


What is a Browser?

Sip of the Day - June 30, 2009

Sip of the Day - The New Credit Crunch

Titera's Tidbit: Blog

In 1997, using a new technology that allowed him to make daily changes to his home page on the World Wide Web, a journalist called Jorn Barger coined the term "weblog", on the model of a ship or airplane log. In 1999, Peter Merholz read the word as "we blog", and abbreviated it as "blog" on his own site. The word has proliferated, just as the thing itself.

Sippets:
· I Gotta Get Me One of These
· Please Don’t Take a Bath and Twitter
· Jefferson Bible Reveals Founding Father's View of God
· Miracle at Sea: One Person Rescued from Deadly Jet Crash
· Super Sip Savers - Five Best Free System Restore Tools

Broken Heart