Links tagged with “words”
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The Best Word Book Ever,1963 and 1991. - a set on Flickr
Fascinating look at the changes in Richard Scarry’s childrens’ picture book. “Beautiful screaming lady” is a favourite 1963 phrase. (via Tom Taylor)
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MemeTracker: tracking news phrases over the web
This is the kind of thing I was trying to do for my futures thesis in 2000, only without the data, resources or know-how. (via @aleksk)
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How do sites prevent vanity URLs from colliding with future features? - Quora
Just for the list of suggested blacklist terms that shouldn’t be allowed for usernames, so as to avoid future URL conflicts.
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Word Spy - parahawking
“A sport where paragliders follow birds of prey that have been trained to look for and follow thermal updrafts that enable the pilots to stay aloft.”
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Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
Lets you create tag clouds that are much more lovely than the usual. (via Blackbelt Jones)
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Tweet Clouds
Showing what words you use most on Twitter. Home, College, Day, Work are the unremarkable stand-outs for me. (via Russell Davies)
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Wired News: It’s Just the ‘internet’ Now
A decade and more ago it was