The Origins of ABC
The I Love Typography blog has a great overview of the origins of the Latin alphabet. Check it out!
What’s in a Name?
Here are a couple sites making the rounds that visualize name data. (Ooo. I love visualizing name data!) The first is...
The Year in Buzzwords.
The New York Times “Week in Review” writes up its take on the state of English lingo in Buzzwords 2007:...
Analyze This.
The New York Times ran a cartoon by Ward Sutton last week called “Reading Tea Leaves and Campaign Logos.”...
Limericks & Pi
Here are a quick couple of links relating to curiosities we glanced at in class: You can find The Omnificent English...
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Seen & Noted
The Curfew
June 27, 2011 | 10:52 am"A game about civil liberties and teenagers," from the BBC.
Low Budget X-Men
June 19, 2011 | 7:16 pmWhy wait around for your mutation to manifest?
Out of Print
October 20, 2010 | 10:35 pmT-shirts of classic book covers. Cool, if a bit pricey.
How Handwriting Trains the Brain
October 14, 2010 | 8:43 amI always felt like there was an advantage to the pen over the keyboard...
Ask a Real Musician: 5 Classic Male Metal Singers
September 4, 2010 | 1:47 pmA classicist's take on metal singers she's never heard.
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