This page is an aggregate of things I don't want to forget, but am not sure where else to save.
Food edit
Language edit
Miscellaneous edit
- Chekhov's gun: "Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there."
- Mugen Puchipuchi: Japanese keychain that mimics popping of bubblewrap (and is reusable!)
- Thought-terminating cliché
Numbers edit
People edit
- John Akii-Bua, whose name has come to colloquially mean "runs" in Uganda.
- Robert Owen, one of the founders of coops
Animals edit
Thought experiments edit
- The theoretical Ship of Theseus
Wordplay edit
- eunoia is the shortest English word with all five vowels (excluding y). See also https://eunoia.world/.
- Words, words, words... ambigrams and pangrams are pretty cool.