links for 2009-10-23

Language Log » Embuggerance & Feisty ah, those well known scholars Embuggerance & Feisty (2008). Cambridge University Press, no less. (tags: hilarious meta google fail languagelog) Flickr: Matthew Watkins' Photostream this has to be some of the most delightful, innovative iPhone art I've seen! (tags: whimsy iphone art flickr brushes inspiration) 五十年内，废除简化字如何 (Fifty years on, [...]

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links for 2009-10-22

The Chinese Character – No Simple Matter small rumblings in Chinese orthography – should the simplified script be abandoned? and would this revocation be another small milestone in the slow disentangling from the communist legacy in China, I wonder (tags: 中文 简体字 orthography chinese writing politics language)

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small thoughts

Exhortation to self: try to write a small amount, more frequently, rather than a large amount, less frequently. Question to self: When did I start to attend lectures not simply to listen to what the lecturer has to say, but to see how he says it? or to attend undergraduate courses and learn, in the [...]

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links for 2009-10-10

Director Tony Kaye disowns his own film | American History X | Movie News | Movies | Entertainment Weekly | 1 old story, I know, of the histrionic Hollywood nutcase director who attempted to disown what is certainly one of the best films I've ever seen (tags: film history backstories crazy hollywood media) 35 Years [...]

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bookporn #43: heffers, cambridge

A bookporn entry in commemoration of my return to England — I present a bookshop in Cambridge that should have ascended its luscious throne a long time ago: Heffers. Heffers began as a family business, and continues to lay claim to over a hundred continuous years of Cambridge bookselling, since 1876 even though it was [...]

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