The Aleph: Infinite Wonder / Infinite Pity
Just like in the Borges short story, you can now see everything at once …from Project Gutenberg, or from Twitter, or from both.
This may be the only legitimate use case for (truly) infinite scrolling.
Tags: words
The dictionary of obscure sorrows
Ennuitastic.
LukeW | Mobile Design Details: Hide/Show Passwords
I concur completely with Luke’s assessment here. Most password-masking on the web is just security theatre. Displaying password inputs by default (but with an option to hide) should be the norm.
I taste words. | Chloe Weil
Chloe uses interactive text in an attempt to explain what lexical-gustatory synesthesia is like.
No Evidence of Disease (Idle Words)
Quite a story.
CLANG by Subutai Corporation — Kickstarter
Neal Stephenson would like your help in making a video game about sword-fighting that doesn’t suck.
shitty portmanteaux
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse than “webinar.”
Beautiful Swear Words
A swear word a day, typeset.
Lexadecimal
Hexadecimal colours and their corresponding dictionary definitions. Cute.
750 Words
An intriguing writing exercise. If I weren’t such a procrastinator, I would try it out.
Requiring email and passwords for new accounts - Instapaper Blog
A fascinating explanation of why Instapaper is migrating away from its passwordless sign-up.
Enterprise HTML - Provides proven high performance, enterprise-level and scalable HTML tips and best practices.
It's funny (and painful) because it's true (and painful).
Unsuck It
An excellent resource for deciphering corporate business-speak gibberish (I'm going to need this when I'm eavesdropping on Andy Budd making phone calls).
CaptchArt - captchart's posterous
Captchas reinterpreted into art.
What The Fuck Is My Social Media Strategy?
Making it up so you don't have to — somewhat like my New Media Company Name generator from a few years back.
List of Words it is NOT ok to ever say.
Glad to see "webinar" on this list. Shame about "lifestream."
neologasm: antfucker
I'm being credited with hauling this wonderful phrase over from the original Dutch.
Addictionary :: What's your word?
It's The Meaning Of Liff all over again. Creating and rating neologisms.
Douchespeak
Ridiculing the empty language of the corporate world one putrid word at a time.
Business Technology : New Service Helps Tech Startups Choose Terrible Names
I had a very pleasant chat on the phone with Ben Worthen from the Wall Street Journal. He likes my social buzzword generator.
D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y
Really; it's not that difficult.
Research Tools | Economist.com | Economist.com
The Economist style guide: the "dos and don'ts" section is particularly useful.
Merriam-Webster Online
The word w00t has been voted Merriam-Webster word of the year 2007. Slow year.
Words to the Wise: Language and the Journal Sentinel
A language blog from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
typography - a photoset on Flickr
A collection of books with beautiful typography.
The Snowclones Database
A blog dedicated to cataloguing snowclones. Brilliant!
Twitter / Josh Williams: thinks "webinar" has to be ...
He's right, y'know.
Funny Farm
Fun with words. It's like an interconnected hangman.
Wordie
Like Flickr, but without the photos. This, I like.
The Six-Word Memoir Contest: presented by SMITH Magazine and Twitter
Send a six word message to Twitter prefixed with "smithmag" and you could win an iPod nano. Go on, give Earnest Hemmingway a run for his money.
Buzzword Bingo
This <a href="http://bingo.adactio.com/">looks familiar</a>. Great minds think alike. (For some reason, this page has 76 divs and 50 tables. Yikes!)