Like a Can Opener in a Worm Factory

Only tangentially related, but if you want something else to stretch out your time a little bit thinner, have you tried languagelog?

Acronyms are absolutely fine, as far as I can see, providing you are confident a helthy majority of your audience will be able to read them without having to interruipt thought to work out what they mean. And most of the ones you list there are definitely in the bloddstream of the vox bloguli...