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Category Archives: Tools + Annotations
handy tools and resources collected elsewhere which i use from time to time – stashed here so i can find when needed
Word Frequency Counter
Our word frequency counter allows you to count the frequency usage of each word in your text. Paste or type in your text below, and click submit.
Color wheel | Color schemes (Adobe)
stripcreator : make your own comic strips
Butterick’s Practical Typography
Online Etymology Dictionary
This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they’re explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.
The dates beside a word indicate the earliest year for which there is a surviving written record of that word (in English, unless otherwise indicated). This should be taken as approximate, especially before about 1700, since a word may have been used in conversation for hundreds of years before it turns up in a manuscript that has had the good fortune to survive the centuries.
WhatTheFont! « MyFonts
Seen a font in use and want to know what it is? Submit an image to WhatTheFont to find the closest matches in our database. Or, let cloak-draped font enthusiasts lend a hand in the WhatTheFont Forum
Kurt Cobain, The Rolling Stone Interview: Success Doesn’t Suck
Kurt Cobain, The Rolling Stone Interview: Success Doesn’t Suck
But you must have had a good time writing it.
We’d been practicing for about three months. We were waiting to sign to DGC, and Dave [Grohl] and I were living in Olympia [Wash.], and Krist [Novoselic] was living in Tacoma [Wash.]. We were driving up to Tacoma every night for practice, trying to write songs. I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it [smiles]. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band – or at least in a Pixies cover band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard.“Teen Spirit” was such a clichéd riff. It was so close to a Boston riff or “Louie, Louie.” When I came up with the guitar part, Krist looked at me and said, “That is so ridiculous.” I made the band play it for an hour and a half.
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The Oxford Comma, A Confounding Bit of Punctuation
The Oxford Comma, A Confounding Bit of Punctuation
This final comma at the end of a list placed directly before the main conjunction such as “and”, “or” or “nor” is called the serial comma or Oxford comma and it has long driven grammar nerds crazy….
