The Wordsmith's Forge

This is a good point:

George Lakoff | The Policy-Speak Disaster for Health Care
George Lakoff, Truthout: "Barack Obama ran the best-organized and best-framed presidential campaign in history. How is it possible that the same people who did so well in the campaign have done so badly on health care?"

haikujaguar posted about this:

"For ONE WEEK ONLY the Commercial Pattern Archive at the University of Rhode Island is offering free online access. Login with the username "guest" and the password "pattern".
http://www.uri.edu/library/special_collections/COPA/login.php
COPA has about 48,000 vintage patterns (including the small scale pattern piece images!) dating from 1868—2000."

These are mostly useful for inspiration, but worth a look for serious clothworkers.

This virtual keyboard doesn't look very practical to me, but it is cool.