It was inevitable, given the sheer ubiquitousness, that .sex is under consideration for use by ICANN for domains.

“You can almost guarantee the most highly sought-after one will, unfortunately, probably be dot-sex,” said Bryan Glick of Computing Magazine.

“All the meaningful words and meaningful names in the English language have been bought up already,” Glick said.

True. While some companies have been clever in branding their organizations with a quirky name so they can have a unique domain, it’s become a little difficult to identify a company with it’s product or service because of its deliberately misspelled or derivative name (Google being the glaring exception, obviously).

As the article states, it will create a new gold rush for prime Internet real estate for anyone with the time and money to scoop up as many words as possible… quickly.

I suspect that most of the best words will be gone in the blink of an eye and be worth a fortune. Still, with even a little imagination, there’s a lot o’ words in the dictionary.

Some comedians have made a living with one-liners, some make fun of their lame sex lives and some just milked their one-note routine for a while and went away (see ya, Diceman).

The best comedians have always been astute observers of absurdity in an ordinary day; their material was about the stuff we saw all around but we didn’t see how funny — or stupid — it could be. Taking something overt and repackaging it so you have a completely different perspective on it is an art. And today, we lost an artist.

George Carlin died of heart failure at age 71. Read the rest of this entry »