HBO's Elizabeth I site 

It's nice. PBSish almost. Nice use of Flash. Here's something they call a game about the queen's suitors. It isn't really a game, but it's a nice clicky Flash thing, making you do something. Funny how you're more likely to read something on the web if it's presented like this.

It's all a blur to me 

You don't hear all that much in e-learning circles about making reading enticing for beginning readers. Maybe it crosses over into e-books too much to be interesting to e-learning types.

Maybe the line between publishing and teaching is more distinct in learning institutions. For adult training, at least to me, the line is so blurry I can hardly see it. I see it as someone who works in business publishing, but then you look at e-learning vendors (providers of online LMSs, custom online training producers) and hardly anybody has e-texts on their services menu. If you ask, they'll say "put the text in the program." Sometimes you can do that.

It's called the 'fucking infix'  

Turns out linguists have considered the lofty question of where the word "fucking" should be placed among the syllables of another word. Stowe (Boyd, I suppose) came along in Jeneane's comments and dropped off the word from everything2.com:

"The fucking infix is nearly always placed before a stressed syllable. Thus we have "fan-fucking-tastic" but never "fanta-fucking-stic", and "abso-fucking-lutely" but not "ab-fucking-solutely". "Un-fucking-believable" is a counterexample that has seen lots of discussion -- the rule would dictate that we'd say "unbe-fucking-lievable", but nobody says that!"

Stress isn't as important in English as it is in some languages, I don't think, but lots of times there's extra information you can get about the communicator's intent if you hear a word or phrase rather than just read it.

Take my headline. It sounds extra vulgar because before you read the post because you think I'm pissed off about something called an infix and in your head you stress the syllable "in." Fucking infix. But then you see that it's not A fucking infix -- just any old goddamned infix -- but the fucking infix. The fucking infix.

I have a friend who is a phonologist. In fact he studies stress, in Hebrew. It is interesting, but I can't see spending my life on it. I'm ready to move on after an evening and a morning of being silly about it!

Henry's chief contribution to the discussion of everyday language is his tireless 15-year online crusade, starting in Usenet groups, advocating the use of the "singular their." He thinks it's fine to ignore your high school English teacher who marked you down for writing something like "Everybody loves their own mother," and gives as evidence its use by major authors, plus some language history.