Links: words

I'm mostly sharing this article from 2022 because the word Tedcore made me chuckle and sent me down a rabbit hole to find all the CORES (or at least, a good bunch of them). / via Derek Kedziora

They’ve been generous with some phrases that might not stand the test of time, but it’s nice that even ephemeral things can be defined. (And there are oodles of fun nuggets in the list.)

The list refreshes every 30 seconds. Could be a great tool to provoke random thought. / via Jasper

The simple act of watching twilight. That’s it. A communal end to the day. A tiny rite of passage in which work is released and rest begins. Lovely. / thanks again to Guy

New slang to me and a hashtag that is welcome! / via Paul Bausch

Used to follow his former blog and delighted to find he activity maintains an expansive personal site. Every section is filled with near endless awesomeness.

Write music.

Whenever I need to find another word for something, or definition, pronunciation, antonym and even translations (great for branding exercises) I go here. A super valuable tool. / via Erik

You get 5 tries to guess a single word each day. It's like Mastermind, but with language. Super fun. / via Waxy

Machine learning has some benefit

Olivia Wilde learns lettering with Jessica Hische on Skillshare. DELIGHTFUL!

Once more for those in the back

As DJ shared "fun with type"

"We need a third word–one which combines the two concepts and allows us to recognize them together as one responsible act necessary for human advancement. We combine the abstract and the concrete, the joy and the labor." – From "Learning by Heart"

Or 12 really nicely done illustrations by Mary Kate McDevitt

Free coffee, next exit / via @tannerc

a skin-tight garment that covers the entire body. Also? Wikipedia redesigned their pages.

It's a listicle, pulled from a Reddit thread. But dag if I didn't read every one and nod.

Hmmmm. I hear crickets often. Need to try rephrasing. / via Swiss-Miss

I'm really guilty of using some of these words. This list helps me understand how to stop.

I have one. The chicken soup is amazing.

I'm a fan of simplicity, so that's enough

Got a chuckle out of me, and that background is awesome. / via @tomstuder

Maybe not a dictionary, but there's some funny words for sure.

I love good words.

This is a nice compilation of what today feels like. Not today today, but design and how folks think and express themselves in this day and age. I like it. / via fletter

I need to use salubrious more.

I learned things! / via MetaFilter

"...the fact that there’s one more hour of daylight here at night — the hour in the picture above, the hour when we start building fires, setting the table for dinner, deciding what record to put on the turntable while we eat — it makes it feel like the sun really does set slower here. Like time is extended. Like we have all the time in the world. No one pushing me from behind. There’s no rush: there’s time."

"How to start a conversation with someone wearing a Walkman. The problem of the eighties." This and more rad pickup lines. / via Grace Dobush

Once upon a time, a little boy loved a stuffed animal whose name was Old Rabbit. It was so old, in fact, that it was really an unstuffed animal; so old that even back then, with the little boy's brain still nice and fresh, he had no memory of it as "Young Rabbit," or even "Rabbit"; so old that Old Rabbit was barely a rabbit at all but rather a greasy hunk of skin without eyes and ears, with a single red stitch where its tongue used to be. The little boy didn't know why he loved Old Rabbit; he just did, and the night he threw it out the car window was the night he learned how to pray. He would grow up to become a great prayer, this little boy, but only intermittently, only fitfully, praying only when fear and desperation drove him to it, and the night he threw Old Rabbit into the darkness was the night that set the pattern, the night that taught him how. He prayed for Old Rabbit's safe return, and when, hours later, his mother and father came home with the filthy, precious strip of rabbity roadkill, he learned not only that prayers are sometimes answered but also the kind of severe effort they entail, the kind of endless frantic summoning. And so when he threw Old Rabbit out the car window the next time, it was gone for good.

Here's a comment I left about nerdy stuff and Apple computers when I read that Steve Jobs was stepping down. I've more thoughts, but need to let them congeal.

"Tutting is a contemporary abstract interpretive street dance style modeled after Egyptian hieroglyphics. The term Tutting is derived from the name of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun." (Oh, this link is a video, and an ad, but it's still neato)

Words and phrases that Kurt Andersen found annoying and didn’t want used in New York Magazine during his tenure as editor. / via Andrew Huff

Tweeting and Facebooking for change / via @duaneking, @ia

I need to make one of these so bad.

From a new site that lets designers share mixes. Filing this away to listen at work on Monday.

I don't know how to say WOW in Spanish, but I will be able to figure that out soon enough with this very very very amazing app. / via LonelySandwich

Their words: "A stunning film from Will Hoffman and Daniel Mercadante to accompany Radiolab's Words episode." Stunning indeed / via daringfireball

Art that makes you smile is the best art.

I am famous for saying things wrong in general. This list is welcome, though I will never say Buffet as "boo-fay" - So many pronunciations here, they had to split them on two pages! (grrr) /via Coudal

- Greg Storey

Fine readin! (via delicious.com/fraying)

I just shared a cab with "Coach" Jessi on the way back from a Creative Morning thing. Post stalking I feel a definite kinship reading the mission of their studio.

Find out all about a word. They don't yet have etymology on "neato," but there's some good stuff in there (via Jennifer Daniel)

Just finished a video chat where I got to virtually meet the fella behind Brand New, Armin Vit. Very cool, that. Also cool: learning the dot over the letter i is called a tittle. (thanks for the connection Swiss-Miss!)

Mike Monteiro is absolutely correct on every word but jiminy and funnest — which means his list is pretty much spot on. (archive link, via Daring Fireball)

A type of harvester used in logging.

Someone who doesn't think global warming is for reals. (via David Galbraith)

I haven't heard of many of these, but I'm digging the type treatments by Jessica Hische.

This hangs over Austin Kleon's desk.

Paul's going to take a site each week and strip it down.

because, drawer, radiator, garage, aluminum, Subaru, New Zealand, herb, oregano, fruit