IanVisits - Blog and What's On in London
ianvisits.co.uk/Ian's quirky guide to cheap events in London updated daily, and regular blog about history, events and geeky interests.
Selectize.js
selectize.github.io/selectize.js/Selectize is a jQuery-based custom <select> UI control. It's useful for tagging, contact lists, country selectors, and so on.
Disability - The New York Times
nytimes.com/column/disabilityEssays, art and opinion exploring the lives of people living with disabilities.
Allusionist 45: Eponyms II - Name That Disease — The Allusionist
theallusionist.org/name-that-diseaseIf you love eponyms like Roman Mars loves eponyms, I'm afraid physician Isaac Siemens is here to deliver some bad news: medics are ditching them, in favour of terms that a) contain information about what the ailment actually is, and/or b) don't honour Nazi war criminals. Eponyms are controversial things.
Personal names around the world
w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-namesHow do people's names differ around the world, and what are the implications of those differences on the design of forms, databases, ontologies, etc. for the Web?
Localization Gotchas for Asian Languages (CJK) – Behance Tech – Medium
medium.com/behancetech/localization-gotchas-for-asian-languages-cjk-e52a57c0fde1When you’re working on an app that you expect users from around the world to use, you can save a lot of time by thinking about localization first. It’s much more difficult to retrofit once the app…
In Search of the Elusive Sea Wolf Along Canada's Rugged Coast -- National Geographic
ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/sea-wolves/mcgrath-textAt Canada's western edge, beachcombing wolves swim between islands, eating whatever the sea serves up.