The Navi Language was invented for the Avatar movie by American communications professor Paul R. Frommer at the University of Southern California. This is a four minute radio interview from 2009 and it’s very interesting if you care to listen.
Math Can Be Fun
May 31, 2011, by A. U. Crawford
I love to doodle. I don’t really like doing math, though I find it interesting when others do math.
ROILA Robot Language as related from a web designers perspective
May 27, 2011, by A. U. Crawford
Web Design is about communicating, in computer languages, with the internet. When you write HTML or JavaScript or whatever, what you’re doing is speaking the languages of the internet.
But now there’s an invented language called ROILA or Robot Interaction Language. While HTML programing languages are written languages not meant to be verbalized, ROILA is a more human-like verbal language.
The Smurfette Principle
May 26, 2011, by A. U. Crawford
Kinda makes you think. As an aspiring writer I’m always looking at how to make my stories better. Usually though better characters and world views. After watching this I know I will be more aware of this problem as I go forward.
It’s Towel Day!!!
May 26, 2011, by A. U. Crawford
Do you know where your towel is?
Martin Freeman as Arthur
Towel Day is celebrated every 25th of May, and has been since 2001. Two weeks after the death of Douglas Adams who wrote the awesome Hitchhikers Guide to the Galixy series. I highly recommend it.
Writing as a black person in comics and the rule of 3
May 25, 2011, by A. U. Crawford
Dwane McDuffy was a great comic book writer, writing for DC Comics. In an industry that is very hard to break into he was a major creative icon, though many comic book readers might not have known him except from his stories. His most famous character was Static Shock that jumped from comics to TV introducing the character to non comic readers.
There’s always a down side
April 28, 2011, by A. U. Crawford
Tech Support for Mom
April 25, 2011, by A. U. Crawford
Job Listing for Naked Web Coders
April 15, 2011, by A. U. Crawford
Not me
Nude House is a computer software company located in Buckinghamshire, who consider themselves naturists. This means they find the naked body to be perfectly natural. Continue reading
LOLCat Bible Project
April 13, 2011, by A. U. Crawford
Bored Ceiling Cat makinkgz Urf n stuffs
1. Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem.
2. Da Urfs no had shapez An haded dark face, An Ceiling Cat rode invisible bike over teh waterz.
3. At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz. An Ceiling Cat sawed teh lite, to seez stuffs, An splitted teh lite from dark but taht wuz ok cuz kittehs can see in teh dark An not tripz over nethin. An Ceiling Cat sayed light Day An dark no Day. It were FURST!!!1
This is the first 3 lines of genesis, in LOLCat. Started in July of 2007, the LOLCats Bible project is a wiki, which means anyone can add to it. A whole community has grown around it with the goal of translating the entire bible into LOLCat. Here’s a short history and explanation of LOLCat.