Word: streamingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...laughter, of course, did not fit the occasion, the latest in a seemingly endless stream of public events at which Washington's political leaders work themselves into high dudgeon over the sins of financial wizards who, we are told over and over again, have messed up the world for everyone else. But then, you can act outraged about the same thing only so many times before it all starts to sound stale. These spectacles, the public rhetorical floggings, have become teleplays, as predictable as a daytime soap opera, as comforting as a wet rock. (See pictures...
House List: A low-level stream of events punctuated by a few house-list "heroes." Maybe five topics per semester generate a moderate level of discussion, and the rest is just the same four dudes arguing with each other. If you happen to post something that even vaguely offends one of the hyenas' sensibilities, prepare to be absolutely savaged in the way only a self-righteous kid bored at his laptop...
Facebook is in the process of rolling out a new home page - one that combines photos, links, videos and status updates and puts them in one big stream of information. I don't have the new layout yet, but a number of my friends do, and my news feed is suddenly full of frowny emoticons and questions like "What happened to Facebook?!?" (Read "25 More Things I Didn't Want to Know About You on Facebook...
...about the message you want to send to others than what you're doing at that very moment," says Meredith Chin, Facebook's manager of corporate communications. Or as the company described it in a blog post: "One way to think about this is as a timeline - or a stream. As people share more ... the pace of updates accelerates." Sort of like those annoying tickers that run across the bottom of cable news channels, but all the news is about people who never get off their couches...
...final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, remains unfinished; readers will never know what happened to its vanished main character. For a while, a mini-cottage industry arose around posthumous books by Ernest Hemingway - bullfighting tome The Dangerous Summer, Parisian memoir A Moveable Feast and novels Islands in the Stream and The Garden of Eden. Papa Hemingway's pal F. Scott Fitzergald's The Last Tycoon hit bookstores about a year after his death, while a seemingly endless list of Middle Earth tales, starting with The Silmarillion have been apportioned out over the past thirty years by J.R.R. Tolkien...