A terrible sign of laziness, but the two things I want to blog about require brain power and I just can't get that together this afternoon.
From Language Log, Reliable Sources on (Language) Classification.
A USB flash-stick that balloons up with the amount of data stored on it.
From the ever-awesome John Hawks, the unintended consequences of recreational genetics. I have more to say upon this, but it'll be its own post.
New dialects in the East End threatening Cockney.