• Coming soon: The Planet Construction Kit

• The Language Construction Kit in book form
• A grammar of Uyseʔ
   
• Ask Zompist or maybe Agtobot
• The change log
   
• Zompist's Rant Page Where the action is these days

The Almeopedia - Or, Virtual Verduria for short attention spans

• Jaime Hernandez Chronology
• Jaime Hernandez Character Index
• Love & Rockets Links
• Exploring French comix with gun and camera
• A roundup of Latin American comics Getting beyond Mafalda, if you've got that far
• Bob's Comics Reviews - all the comics worth reading
• Fuschia Chang comics: Fuschia takes on chat, comics stores, Asians in comics, evil, etc.
• Swatoons Skeevy little bits of #spinnwebe
• What the translators did to Ranma

• sci.lang FAQ Frequently asked questions about linguistics
• The numbers 1 to 10 in over 5000 languages.
• Deriving Proto-World with tools you probably have at home. And whether you should bother.
• How likely are chance resemblances between languages? - Quite likely, really. A statistical investigation.
• Proto-World and the Language Instinct Two dubious ideas that work dubiously together
• Hau to pranounse Inglish: The real rules of English spelling
• Writing English Chinese-style English spelling is such a pain-- why not use logograms instead?
• When do people learn languages? And how to make them learn yours

• E-Z home test: Are you an American? Plus many more culture tests: French, German, Brazilian, Scottish, Japanese, Indian, Australian, Verdurian...

• Some Faye Wong lyrics in English
• Baudrillard, quel con (English/français)

• Trip to Brazil Plus travel pictures!
• It's the cities, stupid: Jane Jacobs on cities

• The Language Construction Kit
• The Sound Change Applier: A program to apply a set of sound changes to a lexicon
• Hergé's Syldavian: a grammar

• Horselover Fat's Page o' SpinnStuff: Spinnwebe-related pages, including DFC stuff, and a map of #spinnland

• The Zompist Phrasebook. The last phrasebook you'll ever need
  In more languages! - In Chinese
• They Thought You'd Say This : Unlikely phrases from real phrasebooks
• English As She Is Spoke vs. Babelfish! Do humans or machines translate worse?
• The Excuse-O-Mat 3,000,000 ready-made apologies for all occasions.
• The Names of Alchemy - What's butter of antimony? Flower of zinc? The Green Lion? Dephlogisticated air?
• Un Chien Spinndalou The #spinnwebe crowd Hollywoodizes Buñuel
• The sun starts sinking as the party sits there in the sand not doing much D&D or something
• What will happen when you meet Lore And you know you want to.
• The Not My Desk Interview
• The Readers' Commentary on the Not My Desk Commentary
• Great Rock Group Names
• The Quotations File: One, Two, Three, Four Five, and Six
• The Chicago Reader Review-O-Mat Unlimited pedantry on demand!
• Inspector Kinnian Meets Godzilla

• Fun facts to know and tell about Quechua
• Amerindian words in English
• Arabic words in English
• English words from Chinese
• English words from India
• Hiragana flashcards: Gotta learn 'em all!

• Is government evil?
• Have Evangelicals sold their souls to the devil?
• What Bob and Newt don't want you to know about welfare
• Traveler's Guide to the U.S. Elections 2000 and 1996: Making sense of America's favorite quadrennial sport
• U.S. Interventions in Latin America
• The Clinton scandal: Washington, grow up!
• Progressives = Fundamentalists? Left is right and we are all together, goo goo g'joob.
• Why the rich should pay more taxes Guaranteed to set consie blood to boiling
• The last century: what the heck was that? Finally, I explain everything
• Reconstituting America Five ideas to begin
• Fascism: What is it? Are we in danger?
• The Bible on the poor: Or, why God is a liberal
• What's still wrong with Libertarianism Or, distinguishing sci fi from poli sci; v3.0
• How to argue with Zompist: or, Social Skills 101

• Facts from my bookshelf
• Understanding the Chinese Room Searle's response to AI
• 12 reasons to toss the Turing test
• Crib Notes for the Turing Test
• The new pseudo-science of memes
• The history of chemistry on Earth and Almea

• Is science killing science fiction?
• Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
• Psychohistory: Was Hari Seldon pulling our legs?
• Forward and Backward with the Foundation
  All those Foundation books beyond the original trilogy
• Iain M. Banks' Excession
• Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash
• Do Sheep Run in Electric Dreams? Comparing the visions of Dick and Scott
• The cold readings: Don't blame it on physics

  Stories

• Rights for Robots What happens to the beta?
• The Fire Shall Try: The world after our regrettable deaths
• The rogues: A forgotten deity is not harmless

• How to take over the world Well, in Civ2
• Winning at Civ3 sometimes
• How to do better at Civ4 than you probably were

• Oblivion Journal - Or, why there haven't been updates lately

• Extra fun with the Sam & Max video game

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