Pwy yw’r AS Llafur yn y cornel? Mae fe’n chwarae ‘carreg’ mewn gêm Papur Siswrn Carreg yn ystod araith pwysig. Yn erbyn pwy yn y Glymblaid gyferbyn? Mae beirniaid yn galw am ymholiad.
Starting a group blog about an interesting subject is easier than most people think. This post is an introduction to The Januarist, a new group blog at which I’m a co-founder and contributor. The Januarist is in English, but I thought I’d write this post in Welsh. You can use Google Translate to get a [...]
So when I was learning to write English, back in the eighties, I used to mix up the symbols b and d. It’s an easy mistake to make – they’re mirror images and I had 24 other squiggles to learn. Somebody (pretty sure it was my sister or possibly a teacher) helpfully pointed out that [...]
You should have seen the Scrabble board tonight. It was violence, pure violence. Sheer lexical brutality. Above this paragraph could be a photo to illustrate my glorious victory – either a snapshot of tonight’s board or something from Flickr maybe, with a classic edition of the board in all its distinctive colours. But I refuse [...]
After the Bush/Shoe incident, anyone who’d spent even a few moments in eccentric corners of web knew there would be a creative response online. And it came. Wired has a summary of the shoe-inspired games and animations. So Sock And Awe wasn’t the only Flash game based on the Bush/Shoe event. But it was the [...]
Meet the Wordwhale. If you like solving anagrams, the Wordwhale is now pos(t)ing one daily. Follow @wordwhale to join the lexical fun. (You don’t need to be signed up to Twitter to try solving it. You can still view the webpage twitter.com/wordwhale to monitor what’s going on and try solving it. But if you’d like [...]
Google searches for “Twitter” over time, source: Google Trends This graph shows the huge increase in searches for the word “Twitter” on Google. It could be said to roughly correspond to the service’s popularity and importance. Or maybe, for some of the non-adopters, it signals their rising levels of scepticism and annoyance in constantly hearing [...]
Mucking about with music video streams isn’t the only misuse of YouTube I’ve been enjoying lately. Here’s a game called A Car’s Life which is based entirely in YouTube. Click the annotations to save the car, but be quick! As to how it works, each level has a different video with an annotation linking to [...]
Here are two embedded videos. They are identical. I’ve posted them so you can play them both – simultaneously. Have a play around with these identical videos. Experiment. No rules, but some things to try: use the pause/play button to synchronise the videos as close as possible. To bring them closer, just delay the video [...]
My name's Carl Morris and this is my blog. It's about language, music, art, business and other stuff I care about.
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