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Emoji-fu
translates iphone emojis to icons in yr browser
bookmarklet  twitter  rss  iphone  emoji  japan  japanese  language  unicode  emoticon  useful  browser 
december 2009 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Metafont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While well-known font designers, such as Hermann Zapf, have collaborated with Knuth to create new fonts using Metafont, the system has not been widely adopted by professional type designers. Knuth attributes this to the fact that "asking an artist to become enough of a mathematician to understand how to write a font with 60 parameters is too much".[5]
language  latex  metafont  typesetting  wiki  wikipedia  history  programming  knuth  typography  fonts  vector 
july 2009 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Palindrome Tester
This little JavaScript application let's you type in a phrase and then analyzes it to see if it is a palindrome. Spaces and some punctuation marks are ignored, as are differences in case. Therefore, "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama" is a valid palindrome.
language  palindrome  tricks  javascript 
may 2009 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Deseret alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A 1860 $5 gold piece, with inscription "Holiness to the Lord" in the Deseret alphabet
design  weird  language  typography  Linguistics  mormons 
december 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Robot - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"literally three-quarters of this article about robots is about having sex with them"
robot  sex  wikipedia  simple  english  language  encyclopedia  wtf 
october 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
MyFox Dallas | Commissioner Defends Position That 'Black Hole' is Racist Term
Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price is sticking to his comments that the term "black hole," which a colleague used, is racist.Price also says language such as "angel food cake" and "devil's food cake" are also racially insensitive.
race  wtf  stupid  dallas  texas  language  black_hole 
july 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Main Page - Reia
Erlang vm + strings (lol), regexps and normal constructs
erlang  reia  python  language  concurrency  programming  ruby 
june 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Ilunga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
the world's most difficult word to translate. "a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time".
language  lolz  forgiveness  wikipedia  translation 
may 2008 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Eggcorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Characteristic of the eggcorn is that the new phrase makes sense on some level ("old-timer's disease" for "Alzheimer's disease")
English  eggcorn  language 
october 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
ChucK - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ChucK is a concurrent, strongly-timed audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance, which runs on Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows. It is designed to favor readability and flexibility for the programmer, over other consider
music  programming  language  audio  wikipedia  csound  chuck 
september 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Metamagical Themas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Metamagical Themas is an eclectic collection of articles written for Scientific American in the early 80s by Douglas Hofstadter= loosely woven about themes in philosophy, creativity, artificial intelligence, typography & fonts, & important social issues.
books  language  logic  math  meme  lisp  hofstadter  ai  mind  cognitive_science 
september 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Nerds - Dress and Apparel - Intelligence - New York Times
Nerdiness, she has concluded, is largely a matter of racially tinged behavior. People who are considered nerds tend to act in ways that are, as she puts it, “hyperwhite.”
article  black  funny  interesting  nerd  nerds  race  people  culture  language  white  stereotypes  hyperwhite  0xffffff 
august 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Flickr: I'm So Bershon
bershon is when you’re 13 and your parents make you wear a Christmas sweatshirt and pose for a family picture, but you’re also way too cool to really even DEAL with it, so you just make this face like you smelled something bad..
flickr  photos  bershon  language  etymology 
july 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglutaminyl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This 1185-letter "word" is the chemical name for "Coat Protein, Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Strain". It is supposedly the longest word in the English language.
wikipedia  language 
june 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Lemonodor: The Regressive Imagery Dictionary
coding scheme for text analysis that measures conceptual content. Primordial thought is the kind of free-form, associative thinking involved in dreams. Like Freud's id, I guess. Conceptual thought is logical, reality-based and focused on problem solving.
psychology  python  language  linguistics  analysis  funny  rid  semantic 
may 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
diagonal characteristics: Of Pirates and Plagiarists, Part 2
"Why does the artist who drew all those bad-ass skulls only get bootlegged, rather than plagiarized? Is it because he's working as an in-house artist, beneath an art director? Is their a high vs. low culture distinction here?"
art  commerce  blogs  culture  language  personal  highvslow  tshirt  plagiarism  threadless  controversy  semantics 
march 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Idioms by kids
his site has over 1000 pictures of Idioms. They do not illustrate what an idiom means, but show the literal meaning. Sometimes the children knew what the idioms meant and drew pictures of the actual real meaning but most of the time the students drew .
kids  education  humor  kidart  art  language 
march 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Singular they - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It has been argued that singular they responds as much to the semantic category of genericness as it does to either number or indeterminate gender. Thus, even if the gender is known, it might be used when a generic, as opposed to individuated, real refere
english  language  memes  useful  grammar  semantics  wikipedia 
february 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
v a g i n a l a d y . c o m
Below, you will find approximately 1,500 vagina words.
blog  funny  language  sex  vagina  list 
february 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Worldandnation: Who ate the last slice of elastic loaf?
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered government and cultural bodies to use modified Persian words to replace foreign words that have crept into the language, such as "pizzas" which will now be known as "elastic loaves,"
news  pizza  food  iran  ahmadinejad  islam  persian  language  standards  government  culture 
january 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Oomoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Japanese religion, often categorized as a new Japanese religion and offshoot of Shinto... Sthe constructed language Esperanto has played a major role in the Oomoto religion. . ...the creator of Esperanto, L. L. Zamenhof, is also considered a god.
japan  boredoms  shinto  yamantaka_eye  religion  esperanto  language  ww2  aikido 
january 2007 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Macintosh Accent Codes
list of keys you can press on a mac to get specific characters
apple  mac  osx  accents  keyboard  reference  language  shortcuts  code  howto 
november 2006 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
The Dilbert Blog: Good News Day
It’s something exotic called Spasmodic Dysphonia. Essentially a part of the brain that controls speech just shuts down in some people, usually after you strain your voice during a bout with allergies (in my case) or some other sort of normal laryngitis.
amazing  article  articles  blogs  bodyhacking  brain  cartoon  cartoons  comic  disease  essential  fun  hack  hacking  health  interesting  irc  language  life  links  mind  neuroscience  odd  people  poem  psych  psychology  random  rap  scary  science  slashdot  sociology  strange  toread  weird  word  wtf  dilbert  speech 
october 2006 by WIZARDISHUNGRY
Mary Godolphin
works of literature written monosyllabically
literacy  books  fiction  language  research 
may 2006 by WIZARDISHUNGRY

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