songs of a wandering iceberg
{ Monthly Archives }
Ongoing - Tim Bray “You want to put funny characters in your XML, ones that aren’t on your keyboard. XML has a bunch of ways to do this; some of them require sophisticated software, others are really ugly, and if you want to avoid both the ugliness and the fancy software, you can use a DTD. This set of issues has been darkening the XML skies for years now, but we may have stumbled on a way out of the box.”
Joel Spolsky covers the development and use of Unicode, “a brave effort to create a single character set that included every reasonable writing system on the planet.”
The Pareidolia Project has articles and photos on parediolia:
a type of illusion or misperception involving a vague or obscure stimulus being perceived as something clear and distinct. For example, in the discolorations of a burnt tortilla one sees the face of Jesus Christ. Or one sees the image of Mother Theresa in a cinnamon bun or the face of a man in the moon.
