[:en]Collections of links with no other place to go.[:de]Willkürlich gesammelte Links
Mrs, Ms, Mx – Oxford dictionary adopting the gender-neutral Mx as an alternative honorific.
Say What Yo – The Urban Dictionary takes on a video form.
Is the writing on the wall for the paragraph? – Writing for the Guardian, Andy Bodle considers whether paragraphs are on the way out.
The digital language divide – Another Guardian article, covering the growing disparity between languages which have gained traction online, and those which perhaps never will.
Language anxieties: A long decline – A cute article over at the Economist, detailing the eternal fear of the decline of language.
21 Photographers Doing Whatever It Takes to Get the Perfect Shot – Cute collection of some daredevils and proud-free hobbyists pursuing their passion.
Internet slang meets American Sign Language – Looking at the spread of new signs to meet the needs of modern language.
24 Food Puns for the United States – Cute photography project playing wordy puns on the USA.
25 maps that explain the English language – Fascinating little collection of maps in some way detailing the growth, development and spread of the English language, including familial relations and modern day imports. One even offers a comparison of the vocabulary found in rappers’ lyrics alongside the works of Shakespeare or Moby Dick.
If the moon were a pixel – A scale depiction of the galaxy, highlighting why you’ll never see a wall poster of the galaxy that’s to scale.
25 Biggest Turning Points – Short summaries of twenty-five important historical events from the BBC.
28 Surreal Interior Design Ideas – There’s something certainly fascinating about the idea of walking over the ocean to your kitchen. Not sure I’m enamoured by the idea of cleaning it.
Zoo Portraits – Barcelona photographer Yago Partal gives zoo animals a unique human face.
141 Boxers – Danish photographer Nicolai Howalt documenting the damage boxing causes in before-and-after portraits of young amateurs.
40 Idioms That Can’t Be Translated Literally – Great little list of idioms from around the world which make you sound like you’re tripping if you translate them literally.
Top 10 IT disasters of all time – Starting with an early warning system on the blink in September, 1983 (just a couple of months before the Able Archer incident), and running through such classics mix ups as the Millennium Bug and the Dell laptop battery inferno, this site lists some of biggest disasters in IT history (though omitting those which caused loss of life).
Auction Bloopers – Find some ebay bargains by looking for common misspellings of items.
Sensible Units – Afraid of the onslaught of metric? Then measure length in albatross wingspans or weigh in terms of female lions or CRT monitors with this fun little website.
Enigma – If you’ve an interest in cryptography, this little website allows you to use your very own Enigma cipher, and provides an inkling into just how complicated the mechanism can really be.
De Radio 4 Top 400 – The favourite classical pieces as voted for by Dutch radio listeners. Certainly a handsome proportion of religious works in the list. (PDF)
100 Best Last Lines from Novels – How great can a last line be? I’ve read some of the works on the list and can’t say any are particularly memorable, but here’s an arbitrary list of the top 100 anyway. (PDF)
The World’s Spookiest Weapons – Starting with the A-bomb and working through mind control, crowd control and animal manipulation, this little list illustrates some of the craziest weapons designed or researched in the years since the last war.
Boxhead 2play – While away some moments (hours!) with this mad flash-based zombie fest. Can also be played cooperatively or in deathmatch mode from the same machine.
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