undead lingo • Richard Lafleur, the current writer of the popular Wheelock’s Latin mentioned at a teaching conference in Warcraft or other popular online games. “I was stunned,” Lafleur told the group after their presentation. “Latin died out as a language hundreds of years ago, but these gamers have gone and killed the language a second time with their pseudo-intellectual guild mottos.”
memento mori • Benjamen Walker of the Theory of Everything has a podcast appreciation of the late Stanislaw Lem.
cool • The Feminiest Press @ CUNY has started reprinting Pulp Fiction written by women. why am i the last person to hear about stuff like this? among the titles are:
Blackbirder • Dorothy B. Hughes
Bunny Lake is Missing • Evelyn Piper
G-String Murders • Gypsy Rose Lee
Girls in 3-B • Valerie Taylor
Laura • Vera Caspary
Bedelia • Vera Caspary
In a Lonely Place • Dorothy B. Hughes
Now, Voyager • Olive Higgins Prouty
Skyscraper • Faith Baldwin
banktoaster • the history of eyeglasses
booktoaster • library thing.com – online book collection organizer.
dvdtoaster • dvdspot.com – online dvd organizer software – I started using this when my collection got unwieldy.
wptoaster • Lorem Ipsum generator – the standard printer’s dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.
blogtoaster • online tool to create favicons from pics…those are those little widget icons that appear left of the url in the browser location.
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