The Philippines melds birds of Malaysia and Indoasia, southeast Asia, China, Korea and Japan — 572 species in all.

What's in a name? Hedge, Fedge, Living Fencerow, Fredge ... […] A tentative truce between British and American agricultural geographers over terminology was brokered when a young British landscape designer trained at Oxford tried to popularize the term fedge in her book High-Impact, Low-Carbon Gardening, which was simultaneously released on both sides of the pond. And yet the term has not gained much currency, so I will propose another, hopefully more memorable one. I suggest that we rally behind another syllogism, the fredge, which takes its f and r from fence and row, and the rest of its letters from hedge and edge.

HuffPo is not made for people who like their news straight. As the situation in Iraq got boggy, the economy soured and the Bush Administration's popularity face-planted, folks wanted a place to vent.

This opportunity I snatched at eagerly, there being nothing else on in Finland at the time apart from a hotel video of The Lavender Hill Mob apparently dubbed by tree frogs with no adenoids, and was thus Saabed across several hoursworth of englaciated ruts to a vast gelid tract, equidistant from Pokka and Lokka, on which grew a million-odd trees.