Literally, A Web Log

On The Colbert Report, guest Andrew Sullivan defined the word ‘blog’ as, “literally a web log“:
Colbert: So edumacate me here: A blog is what? I know the kids do it, I hear it all the time with, like, iPod, I hear those two terms thrown around a lot.
Sullivan: It’s almost like you have truth that […]

DVDFile
The mono tracks on Ride the High Country, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and The Ballad of Cable Hogue are appropriate and legitimate, but the real treat is The Wild Bunch’s Dolby Digital 5.1 mix. Whoa. Between the musical score literally popping out of the soundscape and an excellent manipulation and placement of sound […]

The Harry Potter movies grow up amid ‘Fire’
Marking the halfway mark in the Potter series, “Goblet” is veritably a movie of elaborate entrances, literally: the arrival at Hogwarts of the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students, the Hungarian Horntail swooping down on Harry, Hermione’s dressed-up descent down the steps and of course Voldemort’s horrific resurrection.
I don’t think […]

Seen in the AJC, 10.19.05 (”E-Rate Oversight Criticized”):
One expert said the most likely opportunity for E-rate reform will occur during a rule-making review that the FCC announced in June.
“Literally, everything is on the table,” said Peter Kaplan, regulatory affairs director for Funds for Learning, an E-rate consulting company.
If Atlanta Public Schools spent $59 million on […]

Please join me in donating to the American Red Cross (1-800-HELP-NOW) for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
Every natural disaster seems to trigger a corresponding surge in the use of “literally”: search Yahoo! News for “hurricane katrina literally”
For example:
In New Orleans, where I spent the day, it is literally a sea of inhumanity.
Literally and figuratively, I think […]