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"Kenspeckle" is an amazingly cool Scottish word meaning conspicuous.

Kenspeckle.net, a blog by Lauren Sperber, is meant to be "a humorous, hyperlinked look at language, internet culture, and anything conspicuous."

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• artsy & crafty

  • Advertising/Design Goodness
  • Craft Mag
  • Elliott Malkin
  • Marisa Olson
  • microRevolt
  • Obsessive Consumption
  • Rhizome

• bookish & webish

  • Anne Helmond
  • apophenia
  • if:book
  • jeweled platypus
  • Masters of Media
  • Network Research

• friendly & acquaintancy

  • 92Y Blog
  • Deeplinking
  • Doylebrau
  • lornagrl
  • Nondescript Cat
  • Rewind and Quicksand
  • simplifi3d
  • word[is(not equal to)]art

• lexical & informational

  • Ask Oxford
  • The Phrontistery
  • Wikipedia
  • Wordie

• miscellaneous & spontaneous

  • boing boing
  • Everything & Nothing
  • Fimoculous
  • Ironic Sans
  • kottke
  • The Onion
  • Waxy
  • xkcd

• nyc food

  • Alligator Lounge
  • Beyoglu
  • BXL Café
  • Chip Shop
  • Cones
  • Doughnut Plant
  • Franny’s
  • Kashkaval
  • Mango Thai
  • Pommes Frites
  • Terrace Bagels
  • Vegetarian’s Paradise 2
  • Wasabi Lobby

• technologic & graphic

  • A List Apart
  • info aesthetics
  • techdirt
  • Wired

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