Cliché Finder
Have you been searching high and low for a flabby cliché to use instead of le mot juste? Well, look no further. Hacks rejoice!
Clive Cussler
I caught Sahara on the tube the other night, and thought its blend of pure mindless fun and solid barely plausible technical background was perfect. It wasn't a great movie, but it was a great guy-flick.
Clive James Has a Posse
Clive">http://www.clivejames.com/index.cfm">Clive James has a website, which is full of stuff that'll keep you riveted to your chair.
Closing Your Eyes to Listen to Music
Scientists say your brain does it for you. Now, I'd like them to reverse the experiment to see if that's why okay home theater can be "good enough," but so-so hi-fi seldom is.
CMS Online!
If you know that CMS means The Chicago Manual of Style, you didn't need that exclamation point. If you don't, a hundred of 'em wouldn't make the news exciting.
Cold Compresses Work
Do you know why? Me neither. Susan Fleetwood-Walker to the rescue.
Colin Meloy's Literary Bona Fides
If I needed a reason to check out the Decemberists beyond Stephen Mejias' recommendation, this interview would be it.
Collective Nouns In English
English, she is a funny language as she is spoke. But strangest by far is the odd bunch of words we use to connote groups of animals. A chain of bobolinks? A nuisance of cats? A raft of otter? A mob of kangaroo—wait, shouldn't that be a court of kangaroo?
Collectors vs Lovers
Over in the Stereophilehttp://forum.stereophile.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=3839&page=&…; Forums, we've been having a conversation about the differences between music lovers and collectors—a conversation that has been considerably enlivened by the participation of my friend Jeff Wong, who is both.
Colony Collapse Disorder?
Classical Values takes a sharp look at the much ballyhooed honeybee blight. "The bees that seem to be suffering from Colony Collapse Disorder are the ones that get boxed up and trucked around, and they've been kept going for decades with regular dustings of miticides. Whether this is good for bees and how long they can be expected to compete with wild insects is of course debatable."