Happy Australia Day!

Other festive happenings this week include the Gasparilla Pirate Fest in Florida and the Egyptian Marathon in Luxor. (I don't see anything indicating the latter has been canceled due to the unrest in Egypt, so hopefully everything is copacetic there.)

The most detailed map ever made of North American dialects is online and available for study. It's amazing we understand each other as well as we do, really.

The iPad now has an app that lets you travel through time in London. Who needs a DeLorean or an Omni?