Just for Fun

About Just for Fun

We all know that working with standards can be detailed and picky work. Unless you're involved with the actual standard definition, which can have all the excitement of office politics, we all need a judicious amount of amusement to help refocus the mind. This page is designed for just that - links to standards humor (!), great explanations, and other worthy snippets.

Please forward new ideas and links to the Standards Watch editor to help make this page grow.

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Infrequently Asked Questions (Proper Spelling for the Plural of DTD).

http://xml.coverpages.org/properSpellingForPluralOfDTD.html

 

Introducing the Book, Helpdesk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek

 

The Machine is US

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

 

Histories of Standardization

From the ASME website

http://www.asme.org/Communities/History/Resources/Long_Arduous_March_Toward.cfm 

reprinted with permission from the Smithsonian Magazine

ANSI's Standards History Page 

http://www.ansi.org/consumer_affairs/history_standards.aspx?menuid=5

 

A Dictionary of the English Language, by Samuel Johnson

1828 edition and first available online edition digitized by Google. The original was 1755.

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC10440993&id=z3kKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=A+Dictionary+of+the+English+Language#PPP1,M1