Check out The Fashionable Dictionary from Brit blog Butterflies and Wheels, dedicated to puncturing of academic pretension. Here's a taste:
ADoes anyone have a link to Amish Tech Support's hilarious terrorism alert icons? I think they disappeared when he moved to blogmosis. Anyway, IMAO does a similar number on the color alert codes.
Acceptance
Nice, warm, cooperative way of evaluating ideas, much better than argument.
Accuracy
Exploded concept. Foolish, Platonic notion that we can get our facts straight.
Alphabet
The opposite of the Goddess. "But one pernicious effect of literacy has gone largely unnoticed: writing subliminally fosters a patriarchal outlook. Writing of any kind, but especially its alphabetic form, diminishes feminine values and with them, women's power in the culture." [Leonard Shlain, The Goddess and the Alphabet]
From the practical to the silly: Google holiday logos you'll never see.
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