"Even more than anachronism, a core theme of Mad Men is the lost art of personal reserve, self-effacement, and mystery. When Don Draper says, "Tell Jimmy I need to talk to him" in season 2 instead of "I have to talk to him," it hits a slightly more narcissistic, self-revealing note than it should. A baby boomer might set up a business meeting by invoking his personal needs; but a member of the "silent generation"—particularly one living a double life like Draper—doesn't talk about himself quite so readily."

"Chinese Encoding and Language Tags". This is going to be fun.

"What differentiates this thesaurus from any other is that it is, as the title announces, historical: combining the data of the Oxford English Dictionary and the Thesaurus of Old English, it presents meanings in chronological order, noting when terms first appeared, often when they disappeared, or whether they were one-shots, lovely doomed coinages such as “moonling”."

This looks like it could be most handy. "If you’re building a multi-language website or app, you probably use language files. When you change content in one language file, you need to remember to update the other language files. Even with source control, this can get messy pretty quickly if you have many languages, many translators or a large site. We encountered these problems ourselves and needed a tool to keep things organized - so we built String."

a term used in the history of architecture, design, and archaeology. It refers to a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to structure that was necessary in the original. Skeuomorphs may be deliberately employed to make the new look comfortably old and familiar, such as copper cladding on zinc pennies or computer printed postage with circular town name and cancellation lines."

"Click on a flavor, and watch as it generates a serving of fake information right before your eyes. Use it as filler copy, in your book report, or whisper it to your special someone."

"Art bollocks has become institutionalised, normalised and is now practically the default way of writing about art and culture for seasoned journalists and a-level students alike. Like Orwell’s Newspeak, art bollocks is variously used in a knowing way, as an in-joke, a private language, a posture, or maybe out of fear – to maintain some questionable status among equally questionable peers."

"Mr Foster says that what must be done is to teach organisations to "expand their talent management agenda from a narrow and tactical focus on human resources activities around the employee life cycle, to a broad and strategic focus on highly integrated systems of capabilities fundamental to business strategies and operations". This is shameful, outrageous bilge."

“Is there Project Management Lingo?” Yes. Yes there is. My favourite in the comments: "What Would McGyver Do?"

"Anonymous employees of the newspaper would visit seaside resorts. The newspaper would print details of the town, a description of the appearance of that day's "Lobby Lud", and a particular pass phrase. Anyone carrying a copy of the newspaper could challenge "Lobby Lud" with the appropriate phrase, and receive the sum of money."

"A tool which will translate RSS newsfeeds into 24 languages using Google Translate."

Nicholson Baker on Wikipedia. Brilliant.

"Enables you to delete resources localized in unused languages, and then free disk space."

"Something funny about this whole Web 2.0 thing…much of what makes the experience is made of written words"

"For Each Word You Get Right, We Donate 10 Grains of Rice through the United Nations to Help End World Hunger"

Mixed metaphors.

Best Practices for Declaring Languages in HTML and XHTML

"Capital Community College Foundation has a good site on Grammar and Writing which contains a very intensive guide from word and sentence, paragraph to essay and research paper level for grammar and writing. Bookmark this handy site for reference!"

"A while ago, I fell into conversation-by-email with an American working in in Japan as a graphic designer [...] I asked him, very casually, if he could tell me a bit about what life is like there."