Stories about: Merriam-Webster

You no longer have to order your Handspring Inc. Visor from the Web. Handspring Visors have shipped to CompUSA, Best Buy, and Staples.

The final word on the English language is coming soon to your browser--if you can afford it. Set for a mid-March launch, the Oxford English Dictionary's new Web site is part of a $55 million revision Project intended to fully update the 116-year-old dictionary for the first time since 1928. OED editors expect to add approximately 1000 new words to the site every three months, along with updated and supplemental definitions of older words.

Here are some Memorial Day tidbits: A correction on gullibility. How to make a hip online donation to the Balkans. Another big reason for electronic-commerce abandonment. Why Internet growth may not be slowing after all. An update on when the Net stock bubble will burst. And a new genre of atom jokes.

We too often trust the wrong people, and sometimes the right people too much.