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Metafilter A Database of Metaphor The Mind is a Metaphor. A database of thousands of metaphors organized by category, like 18th century, Liquid, or Jacobite. It's maintained by University of Virginia English Professor…

March 27 2012, 7:06pm | Comments
Link Culturomics: Have physicists discovered the evolutionary laws of…
Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper…

March 20 2012, 11:04am | Comments
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March 9 2012, 2:18am | Comments
Twitter Links Who Coined Skronk, Krautrock & Hip-Hop? The Origins of Musical Genre Phraseology
Music comes from everywhere, and so do the names we call it by. There's a longstanding cliche that only the music business needs genre…

February 25 2012, 4:35pm | Comments
Twitter Links Adaptor vs. Adapter
Hi! I'd like to know what's the difference between "adaptor" and "adapter".

February 24 2012, 5:09pm | Comments
Link Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or…
There’s a new online threat to writing. Critics of the web like to blame email, texts, and chat for killing prose. Even blogs—present company included—don’t escape their wrath. But in…

July 25 2011, 2:46am | Comments
Link Michel Serres on the word 'human'
Son of a barge man, Michel Serres joined the Ecole Navale in 1949 and the Ecole Normale supérieure in 1952 where he obtained the aggregation of philosophy in 1955. From…

July 6 2011, 3:15pm | Comments
Link A Home Before the End of the World
Our ignorance is truly staggering. According to some estimates, 95 percent of organisms in the soil alone are unknown to science. Many of them labor unseen, in the dark, serving…

June 29 2011, 4:11pm | Comments
Link Post-Artifact Books and Publishing
We will always debate: the quality of the paper, the pixel density of the display; the cloth used on covers, the interface for highlighting; location by page, location by paragraph.…

June 15 2011, 8:50am | Comments
Link Depicting Relationships: The limits of language
The heart of the english sentence (and equivalent sentential forms in other natural languages) lies in connecting ideas together and creating meaning. Like placing two portals from the recent hit…

May 29 2011, 3:28pm | Comments
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April 3 2011, 7:04am | Comments
Link The lost art of editing
But what happens the rest of the time? Away from the world of freak glitches, what fate befalls the writer as his or her magnum opus enters the publishing production…

February 15 2011, 4:32am | Comments
Link Talks Tree of Codes and Conceptual Art
There’s something about Jonathan Safran Foer that drives a certain breed of dyspeptic New York writer/blogger to drink—more so than usual, anyway. They chafe at the six-figure advances, the visiting…

November 13 2010, 4:58pm | Comments
Link What concepts do not exist in the English…
Carl Honoré (In Praise of Slow) says Canada's Baffin Island Inuit "use the same word—'uvatiarru'—to mean both 'in the distant past' and 'in the distant future.' Time, in such cultures,…

September 10 2010, 4:17am | Comments
Link Forget those creative writing workshops. If you want…
One of the side-effects of having your work appear in a public forum such as this is that people often email me asking for advice on how to break into…

August 18 2010, 2:13am | Comments
Link The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book
In the beginning was the Word. Then came Gutenberg, and it was good. But then came a giddy army of Japanese school girls, writing and “publishing" novels on cell phones.…

June 20 2010, 11:13am | Comments
Link The linguistic turn and other misconceptions about analytic…
Analytic philosophy has a complex history of more than one hundred years and this movement is so variegated that it can hardly be characterized by a single feature. Most of…

June 13 2010, 11:56pm | Comments
Findings The Ship Argo

May 9 2010, 12:37pm | Comments
Link Philip K Dick journals to be published next…
The Exegesis, much anticipated by fans of the writer, will come out in autumn 2011, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt revealed. Dick, who died in 1982 at the age of 53,…

May 4 2010, 2:28am | Comments
Link Sorted Books project
The Sorted Books project began in 1993 years ago and is ongoing. The project has taken place in many different places over the years, ranging form private homes to specialized…

April 29 2010, 3:20pm | Comments
Link A Reporter at Large: The Interpreter
In the wake of the controversy that greeted his paper, Everett encouraged scholars to come to the Amazon and observe the Pirahã for themselves. The first person to take him…

February 21 2010, 5:00pm | Comments
Wikipedia Other The Other or constitutive other (also referred to as othering) is a key concept in continental philosophy, opposed to the Same. It refers, or attempts to refer, to…

January 26 2010, 2:48pm | Comments
Wikipedia Profanity The original meaning of the adjective profane (Latin: "in front of", "outside the temple") referred to items not belonging to the church, e.g. "The fort is the oldest…

November 30 2009, 8:12am | Comments
Link Whitechapel - Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing
Saturday 21 November, 6pm Until 11pm Showcasing UK artists and writers, this parley-based event speculates on the materialisation and dematerialisation of art writing through newly commissioned works, together with readings…

November 21 2009, 5:43am | Comments
Link A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families
Every family, it seems, has its own set of words for describing particular Lego pieces. No one uses the official names. “Dad, please could you pass me that Brick 2x2?”…

November 8 2009, 4:01am | Comments
Wikipedia Petrichor Petrichor (pronounced /ˈpɛtrɨkər/; from Greek petros "stone" + ichor "the fluid that is supposed to flow in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology") is the name…

October 15 2009, 3:36pm | Comments
Wikipedia Petrichor Petrichor (pronounced /ˈpɛtrɨkər/; from Greek petros "stone" + ichor "the fluid that is supposed to flow in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology") is the name…

October 15 2009, 3:36pm | Comments
Link On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of…
We often think of scientific ideas, such as Darwin's theory of evolution, as fixed notions that are accepted as finished. In fact, Darwin's On the Origin of Species evolved over…

October 12 2009, 9:56am | Comments
Writing for 3quarksdaily Writing (Hyper)text and Image
A Polyptychal Discursion: This text, designed with its own concerns in mind, diverges on many trajectories, crossing over itself, intersecting its arguments and statements…

February 23 2009, 8:07am | Comments
Wikipedia Collocation - Wikipedia Within the area of corpus linguistics, collocation is defined as a sequence of words or terms which co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. Collocation refers…

March 25 2008, 4:08pm | Comments

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