This Day in Blogging History: Useful words, missing from English; How many As in Khaaaaan; Goatse.cx taken offline

One year ago today

Useful words with no English equivalent: Mamihlapinatapai (Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego).
This word captures that special look shared between two people, when both are wishing that the other would do something that they both want, but neither want to do.

Five years ago today

How many AAAAAs in Khaaaaaaaan?: As can be seen in this chart, "Google search results for "KH(Ax)N" for x=1 to 100," there's a real spike of "AAAAA"s around 40 and 50.

Ten years ago today
Goatse.cx taken offline: A complaint to the .cx registrar has resulted in the goatse.cx DNS being yanked, which means that this page no longer works.