Or, Big Hairy Post no. 4. The post-digestion literary hair-ball.
← See Mythical Creature of the Day: Bonnacon (2008-02-29) for more, though this remains my favourite for reasons of hairiness and facial expressions.
Language, textuality, the future of the book, and the art of commentary:
- BBC News: Rare words ‘author’s fingerprint’
- — Page-turning passion
- — Search engine collects historical resources
- — The Royal Society puts historic papers online
- — ‘Lost’ Shakespeare play Double Falsehood published
- — Author Michael Morpurgo welcomes book technology
- — Cash boost for UK computer museum
- — How good software makes us stupid
- Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
- Cat and Girl » Archive » Post-Literate
- Continuitas: The Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm for the Origins of Indo-European Languages
- Digital Literacy Project: Technology Training for the Automotive Service Industry
- Fabula: Le manuscrit unique, une singularité plurielle
- futureofthebook.com
- Halfbakery: Full length alliteration
- I Blame the Patriarchy: Close reading spinster-aunt-style
- io9: 5 ways the Google book settlement will change the future of reading
- Joerngruber’s Blog
- Kem’s Utterly Merciless Guide to Essay Writing
- Language Hat
- Language Log: for instance, and²¹
- Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Carlin Romano: Total Ignorance of Philosophy is No Obstacle to Opining about Richard Rorty
- linguaphiles: Language-specific linguistic games
- Liquid Ridiculous
- Literature Compass blog
- Lost in Translation: medieval (signs, inscriptions, and displays in Washington DC–items tagged “medieval”)
- NYTimes.com On Language – Explaining the Origins of Ms.
- Omniglot
- Opunda–repetition
- Paleoglot
- Performing Medieval Narrative Today: A Video Showcase
- Public Service (UK): Net founder launches data website
- Reading 2.0 – Musings on the publishing revolution
- Joël de Rosnay – Le carrefour du Futur
- Straightdope.com: Linguistic term: Using a word with different meanings twice in a construction [Archive] – Straight Dope Message Board
- Ta-Nehisi Coates @ The Atlantic
- The Chronicle of Higher Education: Google’s book search: A disaster for scholars
- — Bad Writing and Bad Thinking
- — Google awards first grants for new digital humanities research program
- — Rereading the university classics – advice
- — Online forum takes notes on note-taking
- The Private Library: Movable Books and the Private Library
- The Virtual Linguist
- The Visual Linguist
- The Web of Language
- Twenty-Two Bridges
- University of Birmingham, School of Computer Science – Natural Language Processing Group: research project on “Metaphor and Metonymy: Addressing a Debate and a Neglected Problem”
- University of Saskatchewan, Dept. of English course: The History and Future of the Book
- Wikipedia: Fallacy
- — List of fallacies
- — Benjamin Mako Hill: List of homophonous phrases
- Word Journal
- xkcd: Curse Levels
- … and assorted items pertaining to Freudian slips, poetic relevance—on the edge of irrelevance, but appropriate—and the Frame Problem
- … and rereading–in the form of physical books–The Classics of practical criticism, reader-response theory, and semiotics. On which note, see also this nice piece from Le Monde today: Entretien avec Umberto Eco,”Je suis un philosophe qui écrit des romans”
- … and assorted speculative fictions, imaginative and irrealist writings, fabulations, call them what you will. A.k.a. the non-genre, anti-genre, or trans-genre. From what the mainstream labels children’s and young adults’ books (of, I insist, the good crazy-creative sort) to SF and fantasy (again, I’m picky though will try most things once, as with food); to medieval romance; to slipstream, post-cyberpunk, and other noughties’ call-them-what-you-wills. A.k.a. the stuff I also happen—through fortuitous coincidence or stronger correlation—to like reading, and to have liked reading for as long as I can remember. (I started reading very young; but broad-sense “reading” materials like L’Île aux enfants, Sesame Street, The Muppets, and The Smurfs were also key formative influences; plus Breughel, Bosch, Magritte, Delvaux, Folon, and the whole Belgian BD culture that was all around.)
The Hairy Turtle-Dove. I did wonder at first why this came up on a Google-image-search for “medieval hairy post”; as ever, context is all: the Alternate History Discussion Board.
The discussion in which I found the above (it’s really just an aside) is well worth a look: on maps:
Juliet O’Brien 