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Fascinating examples in the article and the book just jumped near the top of my reading list. → Danielle Steel Loves the Weather and Elmore Leonard Hates Exclamation Points: Literature by the Numbers Thanks, Reader B.!
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‘Purple Rain’ — As Retold In A Language Without A Word For Purple
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Vote for your favorite of the 10 finalists for the 2017 “net based prize for net based art.” Some intriguing projects.
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Oxford Dictionaries add ‘clicktivism’ and ‘haterade’ as new words for angry times
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It’s interesting to see how supposedly bumbling comedian Tommy Cooper meticulously organized his jokes and planned his physical staging. If you’re wondering who Tommy Cooper is, you probably know some of his jokes.
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A comic by Boulet → How to Beat Writer’s Block in Just 40 Easy Steps
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This month, the USPS announces a new series of WPA Posters Stamps. :: Pair with the Library of Congress WPA Posters Collection
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Today in 1863, the Confederate states’ most powerful Steamship Georgiana is bombarded and finally scuttled while attempting to force its way through a federal blockade to Charleston, South Carolina. Today in 1965, teenage diver and future pioneer in underwater archaeology E. Lee Spence, found the wreckage (see galleries of artifacts from the ship). The Georgiana was owned by George Alfred Trenholm, Secretary of the Treasury during the last year of the Civil War and, Spence has convincingly claimed, inspiration for Margaret Mitchell’s famous character Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind.