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

Resource: Coded Communications, Phonetic Alphabets, etc. / clearinghouse

No doubt in some program or another you’ve heard military personnel/ spies/ special operations operatives communicate using “phonetic alphabets” meaning saying a word beginning with the intended letter so the letter is not misheard –especially with significant background noise or dodgy communication channels with static and what not.

I got curious and it turns out indeed, there are loads of different variations used regionally, in different militaries / organization or different purposes/ services.

What follows is mostly screen captures and random images harvested off the Internet (wikipedia etc for research/ resource/ education/amusement purposes only.

In other words, I didn’t create any of these images, and I wasn’t diligent enough to keep track of where they came from, but I keep on wondering about these things so I’m stashing them here so I can find one I’m curious. Maybe you are also curious.

So consider this a clearinghouse of mostly outdated, irrelevant or redundant information which you could easily obtain elsewhere.

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The Rasterbator

The Rasterbator

Wall art from any image – The Rasterbator enlarges images to multiple pages. Print and combine them into huge posters.

Word Frequency Counter

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)

Color wheel | Color schemes – Adobe Kuler

stripcreator : make your own comic strips

stripcreator : make your own comic strips

Butterick’s Practical Typography

Butterick’s Practical Typography

why typography matters

Online Etymology Dictionary

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

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

The Oxford Comma, A Confounding Bit of Punctuation

The Oxford Comma, A Confounding Bit of Punctuation