My Father’s Final Gift « Aza on Design
The beautifully-written and moving story of a father’s last gift to his son. The father is Jef Raskin; the son is Aza Raskin.
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
Saturday, January 29th, 2011
The Universal magazine - Google Books
A proto-wikipedia from January 1749.
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
Fillerati - Faux Latin is a Dead Language
The best alternative to lorem ipsum yet.
Monday, November 8th, 2010
Damn You Auto Correct! - Funny iPhone Fails and Autocorrect Horror Stories
What a difference an autocorrect makes.
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
Comma quirk irks Rogers - The Globe and Mail
Punctuation matters.
Sunday, June 27th, 2010
Telescopic Text © Joe Davis 2008
A wonderful experiment in expanding hypertext.
Saturday, August 29th, 2009
All Sorts - a linguistic experiment
Collective nouns, collected.
Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Garfield: Lost in Translation
Garfield, translated into Japanese and then translated back into English.
Friday, February 27th, 2009
List of Words it is NOT ok to ever say.
Glad to see "webinar" on this list. Shame about "lifestream."
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Lyttony
Past winners of the Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest, "where WWW means Wretched Writers Welcome."
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
this is a working library
I love the design of this site almost as much as I love the content.
Monday, January 19th, 2009
Austenbook
Pride and Prejudice told through Facebook.
Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Addictionary :: What's your word?
It's The Meaning Of Liff all over again. Creating and rating neologisms.
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
The Septic's Companion - A mercifully brief guide to British culture and slang
British English slang dictionary with translations into American English.
Monday, September 1st, 2008
‘Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours’
Joe's new book will be ready soon. I expect nothing less than the finest wittertainment.
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Douchespeak
Ridiculing the empty language of the corporate world one putrid word at a time.
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Science Fiction Citations for OED
Put all those years of reading science fiction to use. Help track down first usage of sci-fi terms.
Friday, February 15th, 2008
D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y
Really; it's not that difficult.
Friday, November 9th, 2007
Why a Tittle?
A blog dedicated entirely to documenting inappropriate dotting of "I"s in otherwise capitalised words.
Monday, October 29th, 2007
What the F***?
I saw Steven Pinker give a talk recently and he spent a fair amount of time talking about swearing. He has written up that part of the talk into an article for the New Republic.