Madness: Pon Pon!

It's hard to say if this is the Most Insane Thing To Come From Japan (there are so many candidates) but I would wager it ranks:

Health Related Tweets studied by Johns Hopkins

This is so excellent! Two scientists from Johns Hopkins have analyzed 1.6 million health-related tweets to see if they can assist in tracking disease progression across the country & provide other useful information. Result: Yes!

Guess publicly complaining can be useful at some point after all...

Read about it in The Atlantic, or just jump to the actual study.

Need to Make Everything OK?

Go here: http://make-everything-ok.com/

Genki Sudo's "World Order"

Words can't express how much I love this.

What Color Is That Word?

Enter a word, and The Color Of... will show you its color (drawn from searching Flickr)

Thanks to Dudecraft for the find!

Dear Separateness and Closeness

This post from THXTHXTHX is just so right for me:

Comic Book Grammar by Nate Piekos

Nate Piekos at Blambot has written up a wonderfully detailed article for letterers about traditions and trends in comic book grammar. It was fun to read and appreciate how much is communicated through the styling of the letters and balloons.

ELLIPSES
The ellipsis is used when a character's speech trails off. If a character is speaking, trails off, and then resumes in another balloon, you should always end the first dialogue with an ellipsis and then begin the second dialogue with an ellipsis. Another allowable use is when a character's speech is stilted or they pause due to physical distress. Injured characters or those soon-to-be unconscious often make good use of this in wavy balloons. There are only THREE periods in an ellipsis. Again, you'd be surprised how often I've seen four or more.

via Sentence First