- dariusk/corpora · GitHub
A collection of small corpuses of interesting data for the creation of bots and similar stuff. Could be handy.
- NaNoGenMo 2014: A procedurally generated mysterious codex – Safari Blog
Oh my god, this is fantastic. I am going to have to get this running, and then get three or four of these made into real books.
Tag: language
Bookmarks for June 16, 2014
- Russell Davies: Consumers, users, people, mammals
On the importance of being precise about your relationships with the human beings who make up your user/consumer/customer/other base.
Bookmarks for July 2, 2012
- Parliamentary train – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I'd never heard of these before today. Noted and filed, to be used later.
- Unusual Words Rendered in Bold Graphics | Brain Pickings
I have learned words, and seen pretty pictures.
- PHP solves problems. Oh, and you can program with it too!
I am a PHP coder. It is, in truth, the only programming language I'm any good at. Well, OK, maybe javascript, too. I got into it because I wanted to get things done, and PHP maybe it very, very easy for me to do that. I'm not the sort of person who learns new languages for fun, so PHP is where I've stayed. But the reason I've stayed is because I've never found anything I wanted to get done that I couldn't do in PHP. Which suggests to me that the hate it gets from "proper" programmers is basically, so much bullshit. So I liked this article.
- "Obamacare" explained very well. via reddit.com
Just in case anyone reading this is confused about what the healthcare reforms in the US mean. Basically, if you read this, and are still opposed to them, then I can only assume that you are someone who would like more people to die. In which case, perhaps you could help the rest of us out by setting an example.
Bookmarks for May 23, 2012
- Why I Write "Strong Female Characters"
ALPHA, the new novel by Greg Rucka is out in the UK tomorrow. I am more excited for this that I am for Mieville's latest, out the same day. I mention this, because you ought to be buying it. I also commend this article to your attention, where Greg talks about his process – I learned a few tricks I didn't know while reading it.
- 25 Handy Words That Simply Don’t Exist In English | So Bad So Good
I knew a few of these, but some of the others that I didn't know are lovely, and very revealing about human nature.
Bookmarks for February 24, 2012
- 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tounge
Some proper swearing in here.
Bookmarks for February 18, 2010
- Integrating translation into Google Goggles – Google Translate Blog
Trying to think if there's anything I can say other than "wow". Give it a handful of years, and this will be available in real time, too.
Bookmarks for August 5, 2009
- 1938_Phantom_Corsair.jpg (JPEG Image, 801×481 pixels)
Why do I not own one of these? Someone see to it at once!
- Sator Square – Wikipedia
I vaguely recall this from GCSE Latin. It is a rather more ace thing now that I'm not looking at it in a stuffy classroom.
- LOVE ME (work in progress) | Maisie Crow Photojournalist
Go. Look at this. Stunning, bleak, depressing photojournalism on poverty in America.
Bookmarks for March 4, 2009
- The SSD Project | EFF Surveillance Self-Defense Project
Your one stop primer on controlling your relationship with Big Brother.
- 55 Free and beautiful WordPress themes | OpenSourceHunter
There are a few truly beautiful grunge-look themes in here, and I've been thinking about switching to a grunge look for at least one, maybe two of my blogs, just to get away from the very formal look, and mark them out as obviously personal. I'll try a few out, and see what I think.
- Relevant History: Thoughts on design + futures
"we need to learn to talk about the future through things"
- Corpus Chronophage
This is a dozen kinds of cool. Made slightly less so by a particularly rubbish website, but take the time to watch the video, because it's sodding ace.
- twistori
Pretty, interesting, and faintly voyeuristic.
- Back to My Mac through iChat » All Forces
I can see this being a useful thing to be able to do.
- Open the Future: The End of Long-Term Thinking
Jamais Cascio on the difference a change in language may make when dicussing the many vast problems that are heading our way over the next generation or two.
- city benches by adriano design
Someone has finally taken a look at the design of the park bench, realised that it's signiificantly sub-optimal for modern uses, and come up with an alternative design. Ace!
Bookmarks for February 26, 2009
- National Insurance Numbers (NINOs): Format and Security: What to do if you suspect or discover fraud
This is, I assume, information that might be useful to a number of people. God bless the British governement.
- John Hodgman on "meh" – Waxy.org
This is a perfect summary of that ghastly little word. Key phrase here "It's part of the toxic Internet art of constant callous one upsmanship."
Bookmarks for January 29, 2009
- Stephen Fry – Don't Mind Your Language
I'm a bit of a linguistic conservative – my objection to neologisms like "squee" and "woot" is well-documented. But I'm also in firm agreement with Mr Fry here, even if my method of expressing it would be 180 degrees from his own. But then, that's why he's a national treasure and I'm not.
- WebHome < Main < Reprap
I know fuck all about engineering, electronics, or most of the tools this might be useful for. And yet still, I want one.
- London from above, at night – The Big Picture
Some staggeringly beautiful shots of my hometown. There is a small, mean part of me whispering that anyone who was half competant with the right kit and a helicopter could produce these. This is untrue, because he has (I assume) put time, effort and work into getting to a point in his career where it is economically viable for him to do so.
- More of London from above, at night – The Big Picture
More shots by the same photographer. And I know that small mean part of me is dead fucking wrong. These are superbly composed, beautifully shot exposures that evoke feeling and mood, that betray a really bloody good eye. Even were I up there with the right kit, I'm sure I'd miss most of the more interesting shots here.