Anthology of Ideas

Review of AWP on Weblog Tools Collection.

Ever wondered or cared what I read in the mornings?

• [RSS] Aardvarchaeology
• [RSS] Accelerating Future
• [RSS] Adventures in Ethics and Science
• [RSS] Aetiology
• [RSS] Anthology of Ideas Yah, I subscribe to my own feed…but only so I can make sure everything comes out nice…
• [RSS] Astronomy Buff
• [RSS] Bad Language
• [RSS] behindthebuzz.com
• [RSS] Blog Maverick
• [RSS] Chris Garrett on New Media
• [RSS] Cocktail Party Physics
• [RSS] Cognitive Daily
• [RSS] Comics at GiantITP.com One of my Favorite Webcomics
• [RSS] Copyblogger
• [RSS] Cosmic Variance
• [RSS] CSS Beauty Gallery Entries
• [RSS] Deep Sea News
• [RSS] evolgen
• [RSS] FOSSwire
• [RSS] Freelance Switch
• [RSS] Functioning Form: Interface Design
• [RSS] Google Tutor
• [RSS] hicksdesign - journal
• [RSS] /home/liquidat
• [RSS] I Can Has Linux?
• [RSS] iface thoughts
• [RSS] Jatecblog - Linux, Open Source, Web Design, and more.
• [RSS] Life of a Lab Rat
• [RSS] Lorelle on WordPress
• [RSS] MAKE Magazine: Weekend Projects
• [RSS] Mapping The Web
• [RSS] Mark Evans
• [RSS] Mikko’s blog
• [RSS] Nerdaphernalia
• [RSS] NPR: This I Believe
• [RSS] Of Two Minds
• [RSS] Official Google Blog
• [RSS] outbreak
• [RSS] Performancing.com - Helping Bloggers Succeed
• [RSS] Pharyngula
• [RSS] Retrospectacle: A Neuroscience Blog
• [RSS] ruhlman.com
• [RSS] Snook.ca
• [RSS] Techdirt
• [RSS] Terminally Incoherent
• [RSS] The Long Tail
• [RSS] The Loom
• [RSS] The Montoya Herald
• [RSS] The noob
• [RSS] TorrentFreak
• [RSS] Ubuntu Tutorials : Dapper - Edgy - Feisty - Gutsy
• [RSS] Uncertain Principles
• [RSS] Unruled Notebook
• [RSS] WordPress › Support Tag: ajaxd-wordpress
• [RSS] xkcd.com
• [RSS] Zooillogix

That covers most everybody.

Occasionally, so many wonderful posts appear in the lull between the Thursday doldrums and the Friday excitation (pun much?) that I have to “link it up…er…mott”.

1. It turns out that you can see the effects of trawling for fish from space. Do we need any more evidence against it?
2. Uncertain Principles posts about the backlash from the Virginia Tech shootings: turns out stage plays with fake wooden weapons endanger students…according to some college administrators.
3. Uncertain principles also wonders if there is any realistic nanotechnology in SciFi writing.
4. That encrypted hard drive you might have? Worthless now that the encryption can be broken…easily.

Oh and as a side note, anyone else watch one of my favorite video blogs: http://tv.winelibrary.com/?

image credit: Pulpolux !!!

The best of my feeds today.

Are Bloggers and Blogs Ruining the English Language?

Anyone who has had to read Shakespeare in high school knows that the English language is organic. As such, it changes over the decades and centuries. Many words fall into disuse and many new words are added. Back in the late 1980s, researchers suggested that the average adult in North America knew had a vocabulary of at least 100,000 words. Since that time, many thousands of new terms have come into popular use. But fast forward to today and it seems that grammar is rapidly changing too.

A glance at the writing of some bloggers suggests that we might have collectively regressed, or are heading that way. Grammar is rapidly changing online, and not just from bloggers but also journalists writing at the websites of print publications.