Some wonderful Japanese municipal flags. Most are two colour geometric symbols that incorporate stylised typographical elements from Japanese characters and Roman letters. Loads more with descriptions to be found at Wikipedia. (via Draplin Design Co.)

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“Tom Swifties” are curious puns that monkey with the description of reported speech for comic effect.

NYTimes.com’s Schott’s Vocab is holding a Tom Swifty competition this weekend. 2000 comments of clever and still rising… (via kottke.org)