Language

• Linguistics professor George Lakoff, dissects conservative catchphrases.
• The same prof, one year earlier, on how conservatives use language to dominate politics.
• The Rosetta Project - A contemporary counterpart of the historic Rosetta Stone.
• Ogden's Basic English - English, reduced to 850 words.
• Language Ambiguity - A Curse and a Blessing

Writing

• A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices - Definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical devices.
• The Random Name Generator - Character names, the easy way.

Misc

• PaperFormers - Print, cut, and fold, these paper Transformers.
• Philosophy of Art - A group weblog on philosophy of art and its various relationships to mind, ethics, and culture.

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Before and After

Shannon and I are now married.

I've posted some of our wedding pictures to a Flickr group.