On Monday morning (that is, September 9), I had an adventure beyond a geek’s wildest dreams. In Cambridge for a couple of weeks to do endangered alphabets research, I went to the Cambridge University Library and, casting around for somewhere to start, I asked Frank in the Manuscripts Reading Room for a couple of books […]
September 7th is International Sudoku Day, and in observance of this fine global event, the Endangered Alphabets Project is pleased to bring you our first International Sudoku Day Contest! Here’s how it goes. I’m going to post three sudoku in this blog, of varying levels of difficulty. In each case, instead of the numerals 1-9 […]
Ever since I started the Alphabets, it has been my dream to go to Indonesia, land of a score of amazing traditional scripts, so I can see them in their natural habitat, help support revival movements, and maybe even do a little carving in local woods. To do that, though, I need to raise some […]
Nowadays, we think of writing as something that appears on paper, or a screen (or a billboard), and something we read/consume individually, but this is a very recent idea. Venture back a few centuries, or out among the endangered alphabets, and writing is part of a performance–such a fascinating difference that it’s the subject of […]
