Interesting Links for 14-9-2011

[andrewducker]

• UK party leaders back global gay rights campaign
  (tags: lgbt uk politics)
• Text Speak from the 1890s
  (tags: text communication history technology)
• The Rules of Productivity. Download the PDF, and pass it to your manager
  (tags: psychology business software games productivity development work efficiency)
• Now we have to rely on the right to fight the feral rich
  (tags: politics inequality UK banks income)
• xkcd Wedding Cake
  (tags: xkcd wedding cake)
• You are not a single entity, you are a parliament of parliaments
  (tags: comic funny personality)
• Amazing, beautiful, mysterious paper sculptures left around Edinburgh's libraries and museums.
  (tags: books sculpture libraries paper edinburgh library art)
• Agents Try to “Straighten” Gay Characters in YA
  (tags: writing publishing lgbt fiction books sexuality literature)
• This is where Operation Enduring Safety (i.e. the TSA) is going
  (tags: securirt terrorism funny comic)
• Employees Can't Be Fired for Complaining About Their Job on Facebook, Judge Says
  (tags: law Facebook work usa)
• You just shared a link. How long will people pay attention?
  (tags: bitly links attention internet twitter facebook web2.0)
• The situation in Northern Ireland continues to improve, but you won't read about it in the papers.
  (tags: NorthernIreland ireland politics religion media newspapers)

Comments

Telegraph text-speak

[charleysjob.livejournal.com]

I had noticed that a few months ago - in "The Autobiography of Mark Twain" they include exact transcripts of telegraph messages from his papers; and there's a lot of text-style abbreviation. "U" "Pls" "4" etc. (I assume you paid based on length?)

I wonder if there were 1890s grammar-nazis whining about the inevitable demise of the English language too?

Re: Telegraph text-speak

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

At least according to the joke about the Indian name, you paid by word count... but letter count makes sense too.