web linguistics Archives - Boing Boing

web theory Large collection of default spam-comments from a slimy SEO tool Cory Doctorow

Weird How military jargon infected your workplace with endless stupid phrases Popkin
etymology An old person's guide to "skibidi" and other Gen Z slang Jennifer Sandlin
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Culture Mapologies is a website full of interesting cultural and linguistic maps Jennifer Sandlin
africa New evidence of African writing system that pre-dates European colonialists Thom Dunn
language This linguistic analysis of "The Pop-Punk Accent" is absolutely fascinating Thom Dunn
Suicide crisis hotline shares caller data with for-profit spinoff Thom Dunn
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art Celebreedy uses AI to combine faces of stars Rob Beschizza
computer science The history of a Zorklike programming interpreter is a tale of language, art, code and literature Cory Doctorow
wilcock JOHN WILCOCK: The History of ECHO, "The Magazine You Play on Your Phonograph" (1958) Ethan Persoff
Science The academic linguistics of LOLspeak Maggie Koerth
Science Best science writing from the blogosphere Maggie Koerth
guestblog Smart Bombs: Mark Dery, Steven Pinker on the Nature-Nurture Wars and the Politics of IQ Mark Dery
Xkcd-inspired personal ad Cory Doctorow
Funny xkcd: The malware aquarium Cory Doctorow
Comics XKCD creator in Wired; reappearance of blog-goggles in today's strip Cory Doctorow
Comics Scary MBR-nuking program inspired by XKCD geeky webcomic Cory Doctorow
Comics Baby-naming, in the geeky style of the xkcd webcomic Cory Doctorow