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From Colgate Lasagne to Crystal Pepsi: visit the Museum of Failure :: See also, the Museum of Failure site.
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When I’m not actually having to listen to the tampering, disabling and destroying of words, I find the language of air travel fascinating. → How to Speak Airline: A Glossary For Travelers
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The long, sad, maddening take of Google Books and what might have been. → Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria :: And if that isn’t enough, pairs well with How Google Book Search Got Lost.
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Access a database of 70,000 books banned around the world going back to 1575
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Literature is built on lone and level sands… → Is Snapchat the sign of a post-literary future?
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Easy to read…not necessarily so easy to do. But still. → Mindfulness in Plain English
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“…explore collections of music, dance, and speech from almost every corner of the globe, recorded by hundreds of pioneering ethnographers” organized by geography or culture. → The Global Jukebox :: Speaking of global exploration, The Google giveth and The Google taketh away…the new Google Earth is amazing.
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Take a moment to marvel at Jordan Matters’ Tiny Dancers Among Us photos.
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Today is English Language Day at the United Nations, celebrating one of the six official UN languages and the “lingua franca of the modern era.” April 23 was chosen because it is, as Clamorites probably know, the day chosen to commemorate William Shakespeare’s birth (and death). If nothing else, it’s a good day to bovver yourself a little to appreciate the beautiful weirdness of English or worry over its place in academia, etc. How will you celebrate?