Andrea Corinti
Homepage of Andrea Corinti (Xab), freelance content & e-learning platform coordinator and Italian Web World citizen.
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Wander the web like a shoreline.
Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
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Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise
An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.
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NYC's Urban Textscape
What if you could search every visible word on New York City’s streets?
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Anagram Artist
(Requires email registration) A text editor for composing anagrams.
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An Incident
Early 15c., “something which occurs casually in connection with something else,” from Old French incident (13c.), and directly from Latin incidentem (nominative incidens), present participle of incidere “to fall in, fall, find the way; light upon, fall in with; fall upon, occur; happen, befall” –…
From Kagi Small Web
Jennifer Daniel previews the new emoji coming in Unicode 18.0
You’re not going crazy
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Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)graces of the Parenthesis
Erasmus called them “little moons” and George Puttenham praised them as “figures of tolerable disorder” (if used not too often “nor too thick”). For Philip Sidney, they were simply indispensable. Florence Hazrat introduces us to the uncontested early modern king of brackets and to his romance…
From The Public Domain Review
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ludwig wittgenstein's 'language-game', as a game
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Welcome to Wordorigins.org
Detail of Bayeux Tapestry: Norman cavalry attacking an English fort. Image by Myrabella, 2013, licensed under Creative Commons. And we’re on Bluesky and Mastodon too. You can also follow the site on Mastodon and on Bluesky. I am no longer posting on the site formerly known as Twitter. Latest posts:…
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Sockpuppet
Sockpuppet n. A puppet made from a sock or similar garment. n. (Internet) An alternate identity used by someone in order to appear as if they are someone else. v. To maintain one or more such alternate identities.
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An open-source app for IELTS preparation
IELTS Prep (BandReady) — free, open-source, offline-first IELTS practice desktop app. Speaking, writing, reading and listening with a live AI voice examiner and band-descriptor scoring, running on ...
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RainbowSay – Learn, teach, research languages live with shows you love
RainbowSay is a Mac app for learning or teaching a language from the shows, movies, videos and podcasts you already love — sentence by sentence, with AI translation, vocabulary, grammar, speaking practice and live subtitles. Free to start.
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cleartext-mac
A text editor that only allows the 1,000 most common words in English.
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Wordnik
The world’s largest online dictionary with definitions from multiple sources, example sentences, rhymes, conceptual links, and related words.
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Wordoid
Random word generator with toggles for language, quality, patterns, length, and domain availability.
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Text Fixer
Misc online text tools, including word to html, remove line breaks, random nouns, more.
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rot8000
Caesar-cypher encryption that replaces each Unicode character with the one 0x8000 places forward or back.
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Unicode Text Converter
Convert plain text to obscure characters from Unicode.
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That's this stretch.
Walk on