happy mutants Analyzing all known Metal lyrics with natural language processing Cory Doctorow

Business Black-hat hacker handles are often advertisements Cory Doctorow

science fiction Tolkien elf or prescription drug name? Cory Doctorow

gender Lower-case "x" as a gender-neutral typographic convention Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Emojibot uses deep learning to synthesize expressive new nonverbal communications Cory Doctorow

twitter Twitterbot that produces endless entries in an imaginary daemonological grimoire Cory Doctorow

picks How to Speak Canadian Jason Weisberger

sports The euphemisms news reporters use when a sports figure injures his penis and testicles Cory Doctorow

Business Paypal refuses to deliver online purchases to UK addresses containing "Isis" Cory Doctorow

language Space Age Language Translator! Richard Kaufman

politics The weird, humiliating nicknames George W Bush gave to everyone Cory Doctorow

happy mutants "Tendril perversion": when one loop of a coil goes the other way Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Petition: David Attenborough to change his name to "Boaty McBoatface" Cory Doctorow

security Qantas delays flight because of wifi network named "Detonation Device" Cory Doctorow

AI Baby names generated by a neural network Cory Doctorow

language Burbank airport changes name, ditches "Bob Hope" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Society of synthetic linguists explain to court, in Klingon, why Klingon shouldn't be copyrightable Cory Doctorow

Funny Funny "meeting speak cheat sheet" David Pescovitz

web theory Kindle Unlimited is being flooded with 3,000-page garbage books that suck money out of the system Cory Doctorow