The peace symbol made its first public appearance on Good Friday, 1958, in Trafalgar Square, London, as the symbol of the nuclear disarmament movement. BBC News has a history of the peace symbol here. The peace symbol comes from semaphore symbols: an “N” superimposed on a “D”, for nuclear disarmament.

Yahoo announced they will support at least some Semantic Web standards. Of interest to bloggers/ blog readers: Yahoo will support XFN, a microformat containing information on relationships between individuals (XFN is built into the WordPress blogging platform, which this blog uses); and FOAF will also be supported. Announcment on Yahoo site. Hmmm. Google next?…

Yup, Jane Austen used “they/ their/ them” as singular gender-free pronouns. So did Chaucer, Shakespeare, and the King James Bible. And all those people who fulminate and tell us to use “he” as the singular pronoun referring to both men and women, because “they” is plural? Well, they’re wrong.

You probably already know about this, but here’s the best tribute yet to Gary Gygax.