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“We think the next school shooter could be your son.” → Targeted: A Family and the Quest to Stop the Next School Shooter
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There may be no end to Mr. Rogers’ awesomeness, generally, but most definitely in his amazing ear for language. → Mr. Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children
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When linguistics and science and chart nerdery unite → Phonetic Periodic Table Poster
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Infantilizing? Maybe. Complicated? You bet. → Digital Wellness for Grown Ups
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Also…complicated. → The House Unanimously Passed a Bill to Make Child Sex Robots Illegal
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This one triggered some feels… → The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor
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Today in Twitterbots, LMAO edition → Tweets by Wheel Of Fortune Answers (@wofanswers) via the excellent Pop Loser, “a weekly newsletter of innumerable confusions and a profound feeling of despair.”
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The lavishly illustated story of the beautiful Reforma font. Three fully featured families of typeface goodness. Did I mention that it’s free?
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Today in 1849, poet, novelist and short story writer Sarah Orne Jewett is born in South Berwick, Maine. Jewett began publishing at just 19, with stories—like her later longer work—notable for a keen ear for local color and dialogue. Often compared to Flaubert, and a strong influence on later writers including Willa Cather, Jewett’s 1909 New York Times obituary observed that she was “regarded as one of the foremost women writers of America,” and her reputation has only increased in the intervening years. For your reading pleasure, a baker’s dozen of Jewett’s books free on Project Gutenberg.