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I found a fun little tool on the Indy website. It's a name map.

It shows you the frequency per million of your name, where it's most common, etc. For example, Fowler is most commonly found in England or Australia, with the highest frequency located in Bristol, Sheffield, Birmingham, Leeds and Nottingham. It also tells you the first names most commonly associated with the surname, so with mine it's David.

Anyone called David Fowler from Bristol, you are officially not unique.

Some people have too much time on their hands.

In particular, the guy who made a tribute to "the greastest action movie of all time" by making a sample track of sounds from Terminator 2. It's actually fantasic, and the clips give it a scratch-video visual element. My favourite parts are Sarah Connor running down the corridor and the cute little kid rapping.

Also in rapping news; found this Terminator 2 rap.

My friend Ian showed me this today, it's a periodic table.

He's a big geek really.

I asked where Comic Sans was and he seemed unable to answer. Shame.

Ian's skills can be perused in his portfolio on his deviant site.

The final issue of Incorporating Writing focuses on the subject of Creative Writing and the various ways you can learn to do it. Editor Andrew Oldham explains in his blog that he has:

decided along with the editorial team to call it a day after seven years. It’s always best to go out on a high and we have produced some great editions my greatest claim during those years is that we were one of the last magazines to interview Hunter S. Thompson before his death ... We’d like to thank all our readers, reviewers, writers, contributors and editors. We’ve had seven glorious years and we are going out on a high. The best way to end.

Shameless plug:

My opinion column Creative Networking Courses: It's always the quiet ones is on pg39, looking at various options available for writers; conferences, workshops and uni courses.

Give it a read and let me know what you think, comments and criticism welcome.

Use the Random Recipe Generator!

mindmeister is the best online mind-mapping (becuase brain-storm is politically incorrect now) tool I can find. My only annoyance is that you can't make double stems. But slight issue for the awesomeness of this site. You can store multiple, linked maps, and it also gives you a little Amazon reading recommendation for every key word you type, which is nice, as it saves on the Googlebook trawling.

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LEP in outrage at removal of apostrophes from street signs in Preston. Link.

"Apostrophes have hit the headlines elsewhere in the country after so-called 'Apostrophe Man' Stefan Gatward, of Royal Tunbridge Wells, was branded a vandal for using a paintbrush to add a missed apostrophe on a sign outside a home in St Johns Close."  lol

I also find it amusing that this is in Weird News. It's not weird, it's tragic. The country can not make up for a failing education system by ensuring it's easier for stupid people, so they don't get confused.

What about people that actually care about language? People think I'm weird for getting irate about the use of grammar, and this is why. You cannot dumb down the country to make peoples' lives easier or we'll all just disappear into a soup of uninteresting apathetic shite.

I don't know whether I'm plural or possessive.