Today's Links
Microsoft has a helpful, handy guide to 'computer slang' or 1337$p34k (leetspeak).. Now, as an aficionado of slang this is quite fascinating to me but it is also amusing to think about the underlying paranoia that produced that document. I imagine the London bobbies doing the same thing to try and get a handle on Cockney backward slang in the 1700-1800's. Heck, even now there are glossaries available for Americans who can't understand the language used on Coronation Street. Of course the whole point of creating a dialect or creole of a language is to make it difficult for the controllers to understand the controlled.
Typographica is a blog devoted to the love of typography (obviously) - their current feature is their picks for their favourite fonts of 2004.