Fun Topix

At the very bottom of each post, there is a field labeled “Labels” (rather meta, that).  On most computers, they show up as blue, turning to red once you’ve clicked on it;  if you are a member of the Illuminati, yours will show up in gold.  These are functional, labeling one of the topics of that particular post, so if you’d like to see other posts with that same theme, you simply click and are presented with the whole roster of posts that deal with it.

Mostly the labels are straightforward and utilitarian:  things like topology or linguistics.   The word itself might or might not appear in the actual post;  and the post as a whole need not be mostly about that topic:  for instance, in the humorous deadly serious post Topology of a Conspiracy, there is an image intended to suggest the wheels-with-in-wheels complexity of the dastardly Riemann Affair:  the image depicts the Alexander Horned Sphere, a famous topological construction showing infinite linkage.

Sometimes, though, the labels are themselves alluring words.  Check these out:

Americana

anagnorisis
angelology

anomie

bricolage
Buffyverse
cryptomelodia
doublethink
das Ewig-Weibliche
eschatology
faux-naïf
gavagai
Gesamtkunstwerk
glurge
God in the quad
grand guignol
grommet-top curtains 
haute vulgarisation
humble woodchuck
in for a penny, in for a pound
invisibilia
joke
just-so stories
la bosse des maths
logophilia
multiverse
office life
old-time radio
oligophrenia
One-tooth Scully

Occam’s razor

o tempora o mores

Piglet’s birthday

 

Zeitgeist