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    The Middle East Construction Kit is here!
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    The Bhöɣetan family
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    Grammar of Obenzayet
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    Flash cards for Hebrew
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    Hanying Creole & Modern Hanying
    Phonology Builder
    Blender for Conworlders
    New York City culture test by John Cowan
    Syntax Toys: ggg, gtg , mg
    Verdurian grammar rewritten
    Privilege: A User Manual
    The morality of liberalism
    Beic religion
    Maraille: a D&D idea stack
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  • Exploring French comix with gun and camera
  • A roundup of Latin American comics Getting beyond Mafalda, if you've got that far
  • Bob's Comics Reviews - all the comics worth reading
  • Fuschia Chang comics: Fuschia takes on chat, comics stores, Asians in comics, evil, etc.
  • Swatoons Skeevy little bits of #spinnwebe
  • What the translators did to Ranma
  • E-Z home test: Are you an American? Plus many more culture tests: French, German, Brazilian, Scottish, Japanese, Indian, Australian, Verdurian...

  • It's the cities, stupid: Jane Jacobs on cities
  • Some Faye Wong lyrics in English
  • Quel con ce Baudrillard (English/français)
  • Trip to Brazil Plus travel pictures!

    Old games stuff (new stuff here)

  • Winning in Civ2 Civ3 Civ4
  • Oblivion Journal
  • sci.lang FAQ Frequently asked questions about linguistics
  • The numbers 1 to 10 in over 5000 languages.
  • Deriving Proto-World with tools you probably have at home. And whether you should bother.
  • How likely are chance resemblances between languages? - Quite likely, really. A statistical investigation.
  • Proto-World and the Language Instinct Two dubious ideas that work dubiously together
  • Hau to pranounse Inglish: The real rules of English spelling
  • Writing English Chinese-style English spelling is such a pain-- why not use logograms instead?
  • When do people learn languages? And how to make them learn yours
  • Mangling Foreign Dialects: a manual from 70 years ago

    Specific languages

  • Fun facts to know and tell about Quechua
  • Amerindian words in English
  • Arabic words in English
  • English words from Chinese
  • English words from India
  • Hiragana flashcards: Gotta learn 'em all!
  • Hanzi flashcards - Get to learnin'!
  • Devanāgarī flash cards
  • Flash cards for Hebrew
  • The Language Construction Kit
  • SCA² - The Sound Change Applier: A Javascript program to apply a set of sound changes to a lexicon
  • gen - a Javascript language generator
  • phono - A phonology builder
  • Syntax Toys: ggg, gtg , mg
  • Messing with Markov
  • Hergé's Syldavian: a grammar

  • ZBB : my conlanging / conworlding forum

  • My own conlangs can be found here
  • Writing English Chinese-style English spelling is such a pain-- why not use logograms instead?
  • Cyroman - a mixed Roman/Cyrillic font
  • Horselover Fat's Page o' SpinnStuff: Spinnwebe-related pages, including DFC stuff, and a map of #spinnland

  • The Zompist Phrasebook. The last phrasebook you'll ever need
    In more languages! - In Chinese
  • They Thought You'd Say This : Unlikely phrases from real phrasebooks
  • English As She Is Spoke vs. Babelfish! Do humans or machines translate worse?
  • The Excuse-O-Mat 3,000,000 ready-made apologies for all occasions.
  • The Names of Alchemy - What's butter of antimony? Flower of zinc? The Green Lion? Dephlogisticated air?
  • Un Chien Spinndalou The #spinnwebe crowd Hollywoodizes Buñuel
  • The sun starts sinking as the party sits there in the sand not doing much D&D or something
  • What will happen when you meet Lore And you know you want to.
  • The Not My Desk Interview
  • The Readers' Commentary on the Not My Desk Commentary
  • Great Rock Group Names
  • The Quotations File: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, and Seven
  • The Chicago Reader Review-O-Mat Unlimited pedantry on demand!
  • Recent reading is over at my blog
  • Facts from my bookshelf
  • Heinlein : The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
  • Asimov : The Foundation Trilogy
  • Asimov + : Beyond the original trilogy
  • Banks : Excession
  • Stephenson: Snow Crash
  • Dick vs Scott : Do Sheep Run in Electric Dreams?
  • Godwin : The Cold Equations
  • Lynch : Thought Contagion
  • Lewis & Herman : Mangling Foreign Dialects
  • Baudrillard : L'Amérique
  • Jacobs : The Economy of Cities etc.
  • Smith : The Wealth of Nations
  • Piketty: Capital in the 21st Century
  • Keep up to date over at my blog
  • Why liberalism works - and why plutocracy doesn’t
  • The morality of liberalism
  • Privilege: A User Manual
  • How to argue with Zompist: or, Social Skills 101
  • What's still wrong with Libertarianism Or, distinguishing sci fi from poli sci; v3.0
  • The Bible on the poor: Or, why God is a liberal
  • Fascism: What is it? Are we in danger?
  • Reconstituting America Five ideas to begin
  • The last century: what the heck was that? Finally, I explain everything
  • U.S. Interventions in Latin America
  • Traveler's Guide to the U.S. Elections 2000 and 1996: Making sense of America's favorite quadrennial sport
  • What Bob and Newt don't want you to know about welfare
  • Is government evil?
  • Facts from my bookshelf
  • Understanding the Chinese Room Searle's response to AI
  • 12 reasons to toss the Turing test
  • Crib Notes for the Turing Test
  • The new pseudo-science of memes
  • The history of chemistry on Earth and Almea
  • The nearest stars - A conworlder's guide
  • All about e - Fun facts to know and tell about e
  • Is science killing science fiction?
  • Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
  • Psychohistory: Was Hari Seldon pulling our legs?
  • Forward and Backward with the Foundation
    All those Foundation books beyond the original trilogy
  • Iain M. Banks' Excession
  • Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash
  • Do Sheep Run in Electric Dreams? Comparing the visions of Dick and Scott
  • The cold readings: Don't blame it on physics

    Stories

  • Rights for Robots What happens to the beta?
  • The Fire Shall Try: The world after our regrettable deaths
  • The rogues: A forgotten deity is not harmless
  • Against Peace and Freedom: buy my novel
  • Recent games are covered on my blog
  • How to take over the world Well, in Civ2
  • Winning at Civ3 sometimes
  • How to do better at Civ4 than you probably were
  • Oblivion Journal
  • Extra fun with the Sam & Max video game

 
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