shitty portmanteaux
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse than “webinar.”
Tags: words
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!)