c.k.bliss, inventor of semantography

hm, again leibniz with his 'universal characteristic'. he is popping up too often lately. blissymbolics "used as a communication aid in the rehabilitation of aphasics", an inability to use or understand language.

'visually conveyed esperanto', that's what some would like to call unicode, too. there was something between bliss and otto neurath ...

cross cultural design

home internet users 'biggest threat to business' (times)

what a headline. if it wouldn't cause a lot of other problems i am sure they would love to make business without any person involved, but than they should get rid of any beings. the story doesn't tell anything new, beside a new study and maybe the game "data kidnapping".

L†, 1+, ...

Gyaru moji are a mixture of hiragana, katakana, and kanji; mathematical symbols; letters in the English, Greek, and Russian alphabets; numbers, including Roman numerals; and a wide variety of other symbols, all of which can be generated with Japanese word-processing software on personal computers and cell phones. (The Japan Times)

some call it the japanese language boom