Thursday, December 5, 2002

Did I already mention this website? Books, books and more boorks. No, books I mean, not boorks. All online.Bibliomania - Free Online Literature and Study Guides 7:36:34 PM    comment []

Here is the 'webified' version of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. "This HTML version and other electronic versions of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and Ulysses are made available via the World Wide Web, FTP and Gopher through the courtesy of Trent University. Both texts are available in HTML and WP 5.1, with most of the graphic and typographic effects included, and in ASCII text without these features." Watch out though: Joyce's texts are still under copyright in most countries. 6:24:52 PM    comment []

Japanese Engrish is a wonderful website about...well, about Japanese Engrish. Very funny. Q. What is Engrish? A. Engrish can be simply defined as the humorous English mistakes that appear in Japanese advertising and product design. 2:04:12 PM    comment []

And more interesting tidbits about the Tube: CHRISTOPHER A LONG - Secrets Of London's Underground Railways: "Tucked away in a dim side street off Shepherd Market in Mayfair is a little-known, ruby-red entrance to a subterranean and ghost-filled vault." 1:47:18 PM    comment []

More about London Underground: Ghosts and other weirdos on the tube The London subterraneans are real troglodytes, born and bred down below and seldom if ever coming to the surface. They are an evolved or perhaps devolved species: foul, secretive, stunted, ruinous. They've probably forgotten how to speak English; it's even likely that they've developed their own gutteral and ghastly language by now... 1:43:53 PM    comment []

Nice pages about typography. In German, English and Bavarian. Huh? TYPOlis Welcome to the WWW-Sites about typography and design. 11:13:37 AM    comment []