User:Derektb

I just want to sit here and feed my birds

That Good Shit

This is a salad salad, not a tuna salad.

Pure Items

• Pointing
• Public Universal Friend
• Cultural Depictions of Turtles
• Contrastive Focus Reduplication

Good Lists

• List of Monarchs by Nickname
• List of bioluminescent fungus species
• List of lists of lists
• List of colossal sculpture in situ
• List of sigils of demons

Just Good Stuff To Know About

• Civil inattention
• Hendiadys
• Kenning
• Topping out

• Frass
• Axonometric projection
• Likert scale

Surprisingly Deep Articles

• Alfred E. Neuman
• Time immemorial
• Ceremonial ship launching

Beneath the Earth

• Derinkuyu underground city
• Mary King's Close

Minor Items

Things that are funny or interesting, but not good enough shit to really be heartily classed That Good Shit

• Herma
• Zonule of Zinn
• Cad Goddeu - "The Battle of the Trees"
• Petrosphere

Earth Sciences

Aquamarine, a variety of Beryl.

Minerology

Key articles to unlocking mineral knowledge.

• Corundum
• Quartz
• Beryl

Geography

• Barrier island
• Hoodoo

The Math Zone

You know, Math? Heard of it?

Polyhedra

• The Platonic Solids - The Classic Ones
• The Archimedean Solids - The Nerd Ones
• The Johnson Solids - The Hipster Ones

Fractals

• The Mandelbrot Set - The One Everyone's Heard Of
• The Koch Snowflake - The One You Do In Geometry Class
• The Sierpiński Triangle - The One You Explain As Being Like The Triforce

Stars

• Octagram
• Hexagram
• ...and Stellations
  • Stellated octahedron, also known as the "stella octangula"

Language

Eclectic Specifics

Less about linguistics in general, more about linguistic phenomena.

Words

• Eggcorn - "all intensive purposes" instead of "all intents and purposes"
• Mondegreen - "Laid him on the green" / "Lady Mondegreen"

Phrases

• Hendiadys - "Rainy Weather" -> "Rain and Weather"
• Kenning - "Ribcage" -> "Bone House"
• Contrastive Focus Reduplication - "chicken salad, not salad salad"
• Zeugma and Syllepsis - "You held your breath and the door for me."

Wikimedia Commons

Kunstformen der Natur

• Kunstformen der Natur, lithographs by Ernst Haeckel
• Hiragana and Katakana, with stroke order GIFs
  • Historical note: both Hiragana and Katakana had a set of stroke order GIFs on Commons already, but only the Hiragana page was using them; the Katakana stroke order graphics actually weren't in use anywhere. The Hiragana page also had a nice side by side grid, whereas the Katakana page just some image galleries. I edited the Katakana page to both be in the same grid format as the Hiragana page, and to finally employ the stroke order GIFs. I feel good about this.

Miscellaneous Groupings

Wikipedia Articles Whose Titles Are Sentences

• Who is a Jew?
• Workers of the world, unite!
  • Many more of this ilk can be found in the List of political slogans

Coma

• Coma
  • Awareness
  • Wakefulness
  • Dream Argument