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A beautiful photo exploration. → Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories.
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Notes: 1) the main point is about cursive writing, not handwriting generally and, 2) education today is based more on “myth” than not (because…the art part!) → Cursive Handwriting and Other Education Myths
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Robin Sloan is always doing interesting things at the intersection of writing and technology. Two new projects: Penumbra’s New Fiction, featuring one story at a time in a limited edition printed on an old school Risograph (remember those?), and Music of the Mazg, about the “creative machine”-created music for the audiobook version of his fantastic novel Sourdough (that does, indeed revolve around sourdough starter).
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Behold! More technology that works for us. → Automated Voice Recognition Typewriter
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“Being on Twitter felt like being in a nonconsensual BDSM relationship with the apocalypse.” → I Quit Twitter and It Feels Great by Lindy West
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East Village Bar Boldly [and literally] Bans Customers Who Say ‘Literally’
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Well, not literally all of us… → Why do we all have balls on our hats?
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A great story about how Charles Schultz brought Franklin to his comic strip. → Guess Who’s Coming to ‘Peanuts’
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This gets a little geeky, but I can’t be the only person challenged (and often troubled) by how marginalia is represented on the web. → Interactive marginalia
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Today is World Cancer Day, which “aims to save millions of preventable deaths each year by raising awareness and education about the disease [and] pressing governments and individuals across the world to take action.” You can still get involved and, even better, think about how you might contribute a little toward this disease that has surely affected all of us.