While you’re taking a break from launching artillery setting off new year’s fireworks:

• Got smartphone but no keyboard? From Sinosplice, Aeviou: A Chinese Input Method with Promise
• Pinyin Info reviews the new Wenlin favorably: Wenlin releases major upgrade (4.0)
• Interesting stuff on the potential for consonant clusters in Chinese, Russian Loans in Northeast and Northwest Mandarin: The Power of Script to Influence Pronunciation from Victor Mair at Language Log
• In Phags-pa script did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree… Tibetan Links to Kublai Khan’s Unified Script for his Empire from Bruce Humes