Word of the Day for Monday, June 11, 2007

quiescent \kwy-ES-uhnt; kwee-\, adjective:

• Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; inactive.

Urban Word of the Day
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June 11, 2007: programmer's tan
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• The pasty white tan of a person who works over eighty hours a week and never gets any sun.

Bill's been doing a lot of hours lately -- he's really working on his programmer's tan.

Daily Trivia

On which planet is a day longer than a year?

• Venus. A day is defined as the time it takes a planet to rotate on its axis; a year, the time it takes to orbit the sun. Venus takes 243 Earth-days to rotate on its axis, and 225 Earth-days to orbit the sun.

From the book Dracula by Bram Stoker, what was Van Helsing's first name?

• Abraham.