{"id":1734,"date":"2007-08-24T15:28:48","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T20:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2007-08-24T15:28:48","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T20:28:48","slug":"illegalsignsca-and-other-words-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1734","title":{"rendered":"illegalsigns.ca and other words in the wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I think about and show the <a href=\"http:\/\/tapor1-dev.mcmaster.ca\/~dictwordwild\/\">Dictionary of Words in the Wild<\/a> <a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/headline.jpg\" title=\"Surreal Headline Image\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1733\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/headline.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Surreal Headline Image\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve come across some neat web sites that deal with public textuality in different ways. <a href=\"http:\/\/illegalsigns.ca\/\">illegalsigns.ca<\/a> is dedicated to tracking public advertising and the law in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa sent me a link to a great mashup, <a href=\"http:\/\/thesurrealist.co.uk\/standard.php\">The London Evening Standard Headline Generator<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/thesurrealist.co.uk\">thesurrealist.co.uk<\/a>. She also pointed me to a Flickr collection <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lmg\/sets\/72157600009915069\/\">Evening Standard Headline Crisis 2007<\/a> which collects images of the headlines displayed on the boards. Looks like the raw material for the Generator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I think about and show the Dictionary of Words in the Wild I&#8217;ve come across some neat web sites that deal with public textuality in different ways. illegalsigns.ca is dedicated to tracking public advertising and the law in Toronto. Melissa sent me a link to a great mashup, The London Evening Standard Headline Generator &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1734\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">illegalsigns.ca and other words in the wild<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words-in-the-wild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}