I might spend the summer break learning to speak Na’vi

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 22 December, 2009 to the movies subset

Linguist Paul Frommer, creator of the fictional Na’vi language, spoken by the indigenous population of Pandora in Avatar, has written a primer for the language.
Na’vi has 20 consonants, 7 vowels, 4 diphthongs, and 2 syllabic “pseudovowels,” rr and ll.

For truly keen Na’vi devotees, Frommer has said he will be writing about the language [...]

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Blue beanie up your avatar in support of web standards

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 25 November, 2009 to the web subset

Next Monday, 30 November, is International Blue Beanie Day, a day for web professionals to show their support for web standards.
If you’d rather not wear a blue beanie – and this isn’t exactly beanie weather we’re having here – you could always consider adding an illustrated blue beanie to your Facebook or Twitter [...]

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