Sagas of Icelanders

Jeff Miller — Miscellany, Palindromes, Uncommon double letters; triple letters; quadruple letters, Typewriter words; consecutive consonants, Misspelled words; pangrams, Beautiful words; most frequent appearance of each letter …

Wired News &mdash August 16, 2004.   Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the “I” in internet. At the same time, Web becomes web and Net becomes net.

CBC — Essays on word usage.

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William Knowles has a list of Spook Words that supposedly raise an eyebrow among the spies assigned to monitor our communications. A selection of terms you can sprinkle upon your correspondences to befuddle our monitors: Reno, Passwords, White House, Mayfly, MSNBC, COSMOS, Active X, Steve Case, Tools, Military Intelligence, Scully, Bubba, spook words, NAVWCWPNS, USACIL, [...]

Boxes and Arrows: “Information architects are fascinated with faceted classification and its application to information architecture problems. However, facets remain difficult to understand and there are few options for learning about them.”