Citizen Chain on the corner of Powell and Chestnut
February 2, 2009
The Phrontistery: Obscure Words and Vocabulary Resources
The Phrontistery: Obscure Words and Vocabulary Resources
I did one of those “Twenty Five Things” sorts of things over on Facebook. On that list were four items pertaining to Webbie things:
16. I collect quotations and factoids and bits of sparkly info and stash them away and then can’t find them when I want them.
17. I do the same with Web bookmarks and then discover that a site I just discovered is one whose bookmark I’d stashed away nineteen months ago. Too many pretties?
18. I no longer cut recipes out from newspapers and magazines (much…) because things of that sort are all on the Web, or a decent substitute is.
19. I worry (seriously) that one day the Web won’t be there and I’ll be lost and archive-less because I’ve given all my stuff away and grown dependent on the Web as resource. And then where would I be?
What does that have to do with Phrontistery?
I came across Phrontistery today (AFTER I put together the Facebook note) and thought, oh, cool. Wordstuff stuff. I loves Wordstuff stuffs.
I clicked my Delicious click to bookmark the site … and found that I saved it 06 Jun 2007 … which is just under twenty months ago.
Oh.
If you like Wordstuff, though. Go there.
Since 1996, I have compiled word lists in order to spread the joy of the English language. Here, you will find the International House of Logorrhea (an online dictionary of obscure and rare words), the Compendium of Lost Words (a compilation of ultra-rare forgotten words), and many other glossaries, word lists, essays, and other language and etymology resources.
Warren Ellis — War Haunted
Warren Ellis writes: These are, I’m told, the work of one Sergei Larenkov, and they are wonderful. He’s reshot WW2-era photographs in the present day, from their original perspectives, and then faded the original in.
Ellis tells you a bit about the images (and shows some).
The photos are ‘shopped photos taken during the Siege of Leningrad mashed up with the identical scene from modern St. Petersburg. The edges of buildings and trims and fences match up. Marvelous dissonance.
[via Sour Grapes' Google Reader]