Daily Idioms, Annotated began with me just posting strange and dissonant phrases to my Twitter feed, where people like Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing shared my joy.
I started a Tumblr so I could link out to the sources of the phrases, which lead to all sorts of weird corners of human knowledge. I talk more about the project in this short interview with the Boston Globe, and the screenshot here is pulled from this brief appreciation.