Tools and diversions built around text - a concordancer, a prose-quality checker, a couple of old glossaries nobody else bothered to digitise. The Department of Minor Observations lives here too, quietly filing its irregular reports on the small print of everyday life. Not everything here is serious, and not everything serious has been so carefully labelled as such.
Understanding Creativity 12
A full book by Jack Nickle-Smith about creativity and his personal views on it
Text Concordancer
A web-based concordancer intended specifically for web based texts and showing their context
Cento lyrics generator
Generate a cento verse based on random song lyrics
Pig Latin
A tool to translate any passage into pig latin
Department of Minor Observations
A series of comments and views about the current state of being online
Writing quality
A tool to check the quality of a passage of writing
Phonetic alphabet
Translate any text into the phonetic alphabet equivalent
Glossary of Zingaro
Words from the Romani language
Glossary of Cant
Words from the thief's language