maciej + writing   26

The Blood Brain Barrier [bad tech writing]
This is one of the purest pieces of drivel I have read in a while. I challenge anyone to figure out what the author is talking about
drivel  writing  ha  tech 
may 2008 by maciej
Thwack! Whir!... Whir? Segway Polo Is Born
beautifully-written NYT article on a wrong new sport
segway  wozniak  apple  silicon_valley  no  sports  ha  writing  polo  horse 
december 2006 by maciej
Chaos in U.S. foreign policy is nothing new. - By Anne Applebaum - Slate Magazine
Another completely specious article by applebaum. Who hired this woman?
blather  writing  politics  hungary  idiot  us 
october 2006 by maciej
The Lesser Malefic
neat eyeteeth mini-essay about medieval astrology
astrology  astro  mars  malefic  eyeteeth  writing 
october 2006 by maciej
Matthias Herrmann Textpieces, Codpieces , and the Martial Arts: The Artist as Warrior.
a small masterpiece of bad writing. There is nothing you can remove from this article without improving it
blather  art  idiot  ha  writing 
october 2006 by maciej
substitute: Writing for Bloggers: Introductory Course
great reality corrective for people dreaming of the writing life
blog  meatblogging  rant  substitute  ha  writing 
october 2006 by maciej
Edo-period mystery ship
brief description of an 1803 Japanese encounter with a redheaded castaway in a very strange boat
mystery  japan  history  sea  marine  writing  cryptic 
september 2006 by maciej
Romeo's Bleeding Part 4 - When Love is a Four-letter Word-by R. Melton,MA,MFT,CEAP
a Redbook-style article remarkable for its really, really, really, really bad metaphors.
writing  wow  blather  howto  relationships  obgyn  ha 
august 2006 by maciej
Writing words vs. writing software - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
another asinine identification of software development with a fundamentally dissimilar creative activity
inspiration  sofware  writing  howto  idiot  paulgrahamism  blather  no 
july 2006 by maciej
3000 most common Chinese characters
frequency table with examples and English definition.
hanzi  todo  chinese  writing  reference  glossary  useful 
july 2006 by maciej
Xah: Chinese: Core Simplified Chars
510 simplified characters next to their traditional brethren
hanzi  chinese  reference  writing 
july 2006 by maciej
languagehat.com: THE CHINESE WRITTEN CHARACTER AS A MEDIUM FOR BALDERDASH.
Why is there this craving to see Chinese as some sort of weird Forbidden City? It's just a language, much like any other; it happens to be written with a more complicated set of graphs than most
essay  chinese  language  orientalism  cool  lang  linguistics  writing 
may 2006 by maciej
Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den
cute exercise in chinese constrained writing illustrating the gulf between modern and classical chinese, as well as the problem with homophony in the language. Entire poem consists of the repeated syllable "shi"
chinese  classical  poem  constrained  writing  lit  cult  cool 
may 2006 by maciej
Ghost kanji
interesting thread on kanji in the JIS (and so Unicode) standard that don't seem to exist anywhere else
unicode  japanese  hanzi  kanji  computer  writing  systems  inertia 
may 2006 by maciej
USC Chinese Department character stroke order applet thingy
has java animations of proper stroke order for a bunch of traditional and simplified characters
hanzi  tutorial  chinese  writing 
may 2006 by maciej
Ancient Chinese: Language of God?
convincing proof of the Biblical origins of the chinese writing system
flash  ha  rant  jeebus  hanzi  chinese  writing  crank 
may 2006 by maciej
Category:Chinese stroke order in red pictures - Wikimedia Commons
neat use of black->red transition to compactly present proper stroke order
汉字  chinese  tutorial  reference  writing 
may 2006 by maciej
How to write well (by someone who can't)
amusing and sententious essay on improving your writing by someone who should be fired into the sun
christ_what_an_asshole  writing  blog  blather  howto  ha 
may 2006 by maciej

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