From an on-line Interactive Fiction magazine issue from 2001 ... Dunno how I stumbled over this "If you're writing a story-game, the code should automatically unlock and open doors you walk through if you have the key; it's just tedious if it doesn't. But if you're writing a puzzle game, then the code definitely shouldn't - if a player has had to work like fury to get that key then let them have the satisfaction of getting to unlock the damn door with it. Otherwise it plays like the game is tapping its watch saying 'I've grown grey hairs waiting for you to get on and solve that! Can we hurry up, please?'"

Origins of the Greek letter forms, and how they ended up in the Latin script

Concrete Template Toolkit examples from real life

Japanese katakana character chart

Compounding errors in Finnish, and hints for how to learn to write compounds correctly

"You don’t realize it’s happening until your 'About Us' page begins to smell bad and try to bite your face."

Not incredibly original, but a few good ideas to try when Nothing wants to Happen

Annotated manual of a PDP-1 word processor

Massive classic "Massive" as in, lots of words on that page. "Classic" as in, had to put off going home from the office until I had finished reading it all. (Inspiredly, this was on a day when I had already arranged with Permission from the Authority to stay late at the office.)