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Before book v. ebook there was scroll v. codex. → The mysterious ancient origins of the book
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Pollin’ dirty! With elections nearly upon some of us, ProPublica‘s examination of bad ballot design (and simple fixes) is all the more interesting. → Disenfranchised by Bad Design
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You don’t have to be a chemist to enjoy the “Things I Won’t Work With” series by Derek Lowe. A great name, a scary compound and a Twain reference…how can you go wrong? → Things I Won’t Work With: Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane
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“The Festival of Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses (BAHFest) is a celebration of well-argued and thoroughly researched but completely incorrect evolutionary theory.” → Bahfest | THE ONE AND ONLY Festival of Bad ad Hoc Hypotheses
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In the continual font fascination department → More than 800 languages in a single typeface: creating Noto for Google
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I’m sure some will claim that it’s only gotten really bad in the last ten years… → “Students in first-year composition classes [in 2006] are, on average, writing longer essays, using more complex rhetorical techniques, and making no more errors than those committed by freshman in 1917.”
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Westworld is full of Shakespeare quotations, but it’s using them all wrong. [Thanks, Reader C.!]
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The ellipsis in medieval manuscripts: How subpuncting in the Middle Ages give the modern era its strangest punctuation mark. And, from within, Unfinished story … how the ellipsis arrived in English literature.
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For just $2850 USD, you too can line the pockets of both Karl Lagerfeld and Faber-Castell and own the KARLBOX. The description veers into J. Peterman territory.
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Today, the day before Halloween, is Mischief Night (also known as Devil’s Night or Beggar’s Night) in many parts of Canada and the United States, celebrating a night of trickery before a night of treats. Whatever happened to good old Halloween Eve?