5 Interesting Links for 5-11-2012

Language

For those of us who are more visually oriented, this article takes various passages from sources as diverse as literature, law, medicine and sports and highlights the word origins by color to show the diverse sources for terms now considered American English.
http://ideasillustrated.com/blog/2012/04/01/visualizing-english-word-origins/

Programming

A blog with good explanations and code snippets for Web coding:
http://dhirajkumarsingh.wordpress.com

Psychology

In another life, I would have been a fire bug. It’s fascinating and wonderful. This article makes me wonder what’s the root cause of this fascination:
http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2386-fire-fascination.html

Publishing

Tips about self-/indi-publishing from Chicki Brown:
http://thewritersguidetoepublishing.com/welcome-to-the-wg2e-wg2e-viva-la-valentine-anthology-author-chicki-brown

Research

A dictionary of 1930s to early 1940s slang with definitions, origin year, and where the phrase came from.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA04/hess/Slang/slangmenu2.html

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