March Linkfest

Spring has sprung, the grass has riz, I wonder where the linkies is.

Blogossary (good name!), just over a year old, describes itself as "an online dictionary for bloggers, wannabe bloggers, or those who just want to know what a blog is." Helpful definitions include blegging: asking the denizens of the blogosphere for help; blogorrhea: a large number of blog entries or an entire blog comprised of substandard quality or overly verbose content; moblog: a journal updated primarily from a mobile device; and doppelblogger: someone who plagiarizes the content of another blogger for personal gain or recognition. I couldn't find one of my favorite terms, coined by Tate Linden at Thingnamer: Schrödinger's Blog, a blog that's simultaneously dead and alive.

This directory of computer idioms from Contemporary Home Computing was created "to popularize idioms and metaphors that come from the computer to the so called real life." Some nice ones: "The hand moves the mouse" (translation: you control your own destiny), "I gonna bang the bricks!" (Super Mario talk for "I'm going to withdraw some money from the ATM"), and "Read my blog!" (the equivalent of "Get lost!"). See also a partner site, Car Metaphors.

Sci-fi writer Jeff Prucher helpfully lists all the words he left out of Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction. (Via The Lexicographer's Rules.)

Heidi Harley has posted her third annual Simpsons linguistic roundup, complete with derivational verbal morphology, nonce words, interlinguistic homonymy (aka shoecabbages), and count/mass coercion.

And speaking of The Simpsons, there's finally a real trailer for The Simpsons Movie (listed as Trailer 3). Coming to a theater near you July 27! (Via Sore Eyes.)

I thought I'd heard every light bulb joke in the universe, but then Mike Pope posted these light bulb jokes for editors and I, um, saw the light. Some of them are uproarious only to those (like me) who've worked a copy desk, but this one may have a wider audience: Q: How many editors does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: I can't tell whether you mean "change a lightbulb" or "have sex in a lightbulb." Can we reword it to remove ambiguity?

Comments

[John]

ROFL - love the joke :-)

pax et bonum

[TheBrandPoet]

The name "Blogossary" is really a wonderful and newish neologism.However, few months back, I coined -Blog Of Directors with blogofdirectors.com.Is it interesting? Would like to hear from you bloggers!

The Brand Poet

[Brad Shorr]

Thank you for these fantastic resources. I plan to start exploring at the end, because you can never have too many light bulb-editor jokes!