Word of the day (any takers?)

I would love to see a text object that would show the word of the day with it's definition on the desktop. I'm sure it would be a snap for anyone with DX2 that knows scripting. Here's a website that gives the word of the day. I hope someone with some skill likes the idea.

http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/
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I bet you could convince brazen to do this
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Word of the Day for Thursday February 26, 2004

malapropism \mal-uh-PROP-iz-uhm\, noun:


The usually unintentionally humorous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound also, an example of such misuse.



At 15, Rachel, the whiny would-be beauty queen who "cares for naught but appearances," can think only of what she misses: the five-day deodorant pads she forgot to bring, flush toilets, machine-washed clothes and other things, as she says with her willful gift for malapropism, that she has taken "for granite."

Michiko Kakutani, "'The Poisonwood Bible': A Family a Heart of Darkness," New York Times, October 16, 1998

He also had, as a former colleague puts it, "a photogenic memory"a malapropism that captures his gift for the social side of life, his Clintonian ability to remember names of countless people he has met only briefly.

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Seems doable to me. Hmm couldn't post code, oh well, but there is a easy to grab info section.
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Using a script to strip away all the unnescesary code etc, will get you the "info section".
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ah. well now that makes sense doesn't it.