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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.

Allusionist 45: Eponyms II - Name That Disease — The Allusionist

theallusionist.org/name-that-disease
If 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-names
How 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-e52a57c0fde1
When 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…