“The image of rappers and champagne is pretty legendary and dramatic and problematic and funny,” says Tahir Hemphill. Hip-Hop Word Count has been a pet project of Hemphill’s since 2006, when the ...

(AllHipHop News) Now when rap fans are in a heated debate about which emcee is the greatest lyricist of all time they will have mathematical information to back up their claims. Harvard University’s ...

The best part of "Damp Squid," a series of lexicographic essays by Jeremy Butterfield, isn't the oddball title but the computer that inspired it. The Oxford English Corpus, a database of more than 2 ...

I recently made a reservation on American Airlines and noticed that my record locator was a six-character alphabetic code. This automatically generated code reminded me of a funny story regarding ...

We invite you to dive in and explore a database of words that appeared prominently in the print history of Scientific American. Below, each year of that historyis represented by a single word, which ...

The last piece of this three-part article is about merging your custom Word documents with your client list (exported from Outlook to Excel) for distribution. Part One explains how to selectively ...

Don’t open that Word file attached to your e-mail; it might contain malware. And don’t click on that e-mail or Web site links from strangers. Heck, don’t even open Word e-mail attachments from trusted ...

Mention the word “database,” and most people think of the venerable RDBMS that has dominated the landscape for more than 30 years. That, however, may soon change. A whole crop of new contenders are ...