Here’s a site that displays various types of text visualizations. My favorite is the literary organism map, at least in terms of abstract beauty. I’d be really interested in seeing something like this done with some of my favorite stories/books … Continue reading
Throughout the last two months I’ve had the privilege to read two great books by Mario Puzo: The Godfather and The Last Don. Both are chock-full of subtle non-threat commands where characters know they don’t need to communicate directly, their … Continue reading
One of my favorite podcasts is On the Media. It’s an NPR show about communications and the stories beneath the stories. Very interesting stuff. This weeks episode featured the FCC and one choice morsel I loved was when the host, … Continue reading
Oxford dictionaries clears up the “bi-monthly” question. This has bugged me for some time. Bi- is a prefix that can mean “two” eg bisexual (I hope my usage of bisexual doesn’t offend anyone, nor convince search engines to associate me … Continue reading
From the Nazarene Way: Yeshua, the real name of Jesus. The only problem I see with this article is the following sentence: The name Jesus has no intrinsic meaning in English whatsoever. It’s interesting to me, seeing as this historian-type-person … Continue reading
Dictionary.com’s definition of “canoodling” a word Jenni Stukin taught me. That girl has got one awesome vocabulary. Or at least a rockin’ thesaurus.