How The Alphabet Was Born

“An alphabetic writing system uses fewer than 30 signs, and people need only a few relatively simple reading rules that associate these signs with sounds. This great invention had far-reaching social and cultural implications. With the alphabet, writing broke out of the ‘golden cage’ of the professional scribal world. Writing was no longer their monopoly. When many more members of society could learn to read (and write), access to information and knowledge was no longer as limited as it had been. Alphabetic writing eventually gave many more people control over their lives and enabled larger segments of the population to take a more active role in the cultural and administrative affairs of their respective societies. But how was it done?… Time to find out!” w/ photos. LINK

List of 886 Palindromes

Palindromes are words, phrases or sentences that read the same backward as forward. For instance, "racecar," or "Derek, I like red." Now That's Nifty Lists 886 such words and phrases. Pretty neat!

Do geese see God?
Feeble Tom's motel beef.
I madam, I made radio! So I dared. Am I mad? Am I?

Link, Via: Neatorama

Star Wars Alphabet

Set your kids on the path to Star Wars fandom early by teaching them the ABCs using Star Wars characters! This Flickr set by illustrator Michael Fleming made me smile. Link, Via: Neatorama

The Naked Ladies Alphabet by anthonBeeke (NSFW)

One of the most elaborate 'human alphabets', in terms of its formal quality, is of course anthonBeeke's, published by de Jong & Co. printers in their experimental 'Kwadraat' series in 1970. LINK

Graffiti Taxonomy

Graffiti Taxonomy is a project by Evan Roth aka ni9e of Graffiti Research Lab. It is a study of the styles of the alphabets used in graffiti found New York:

Graffiti Taxonomy presents isolated letters from various graffiti tags, reproduced in similar scales and at close proximity. The intent of these studies is to show the diversity of styles as expressed in a single character. In these photographs, the ‘S’ is reproduced from photographs of tags taken in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, while the ‘A’ is reproduced from tags from Central Park North to 125th St. in Harlem. LINK

Extraordinary pictures of the alphabet - spelled out on Butterflies' Wings

Every one of these extraordinary images comes from the brilliant patterns on the wings of moths and butterflies. These designs - each one unique to its species - are used either to attract a mate or for disguise against predators.
Photographer Kjell Sandved has made it his life's work to capture them and create this amazing butterfly alphabet, with every letter from A to Z and every number from 1 to 9. Check these out they are cool. LINK