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Triple Star: Typography's Asterism
Filed under: Looked Into Tagged: Alexander Humez, asterisk, asterism, César Cui, Microsoft Word, Nicholas Humez, Pollux, punctuation, Richard Taruskin, typography, Unicode
Pollux writes:
You don’t see the asterism very much. Three asterisks in a triangular or linear formation, the asterism is used in typography to indicate minor breaks or subchapters in a text. (continued)
Since We're Obsessed With Punctuation at the Moment
Filed under: Little Words Tagged: controversies, punctuation, Slashdot
…or, to be frank, always, we’d like to note this Slashdot story about the war between the sarcasm symbols. Yes, the sarcasm symbols. It sounds like a dirty fight for a low form of humor, but still, it’s correct that punctuation controversies should be in the news, at the top of the hour, above the fold (if not the fray).
—Emily Gordon (continued)
Daily Comic: Air Quotes
Filed under: The Wavy Rule Tagged: comics, Pollux, punctuation, quotation marks, quotes, The Wavy Rule
“Contest”: Write a letter to a punctuation mark. “Deadline”: August 15. (continued)
Daily Comic: Air Semicolon
Filed under: The Wavy Rule Tagged: comics, Pollux, punctuation, semicolon
There is a contest; the contest involves writing a letter to a punctuation mark. There is a deadline; it is August 15. (continued)
Daily Comic: Air Colon
Filed under: The Wavy Rule Tagged: colon, comics, Pollux, punctuation, The Wavy Rule
Contest: Write a letter to a punctuation mark. Deadline: August 15. (continued)
Daily Comic: Air Parentheses
Filed under: The Wavy Rule Tagged: comics, parentheses, Pollux, punctuation
(Contest: Write a letter to a punctuation mark. Deadline: August 15.) (continued)
Bloggingheads-ganza: The Intentional Idiocy of Byron York
Filed under: The Squib Report Tagged: Bloggingheads.tv, Byron York, Timothy Noah
Martin Schneider writes:
A few days ago Timothy Noah of Slate and conservative writer Byron York engaged in a Bloggingheads.tv "diavlog," as they are called.
What to do when you are an "intelligent" conservative confronted with the proposition that FOX News is essentially a bunch of partisan liars whose work cannot be taken seriously? I don't know—that's not my problem. Byron York doesn't handle (continued)
James Sturm's Online Hiatus: Essential Online Reading
Filed under: The Squib Report Tagged: cartoons, Internet, James Sturm, Slate
Martin Schneider writes:
I just stumbled on James Sturm's experiment on Slate involving staying off the Internet for a few weeks and seeing what happens.
The results have been marvelous, witty, wise, insightful, hilarious, and resonant—it's one of the best things I've seen in weeks. I think just about everyone would find a point of access here; that's one of the great things about it. I'm going to embed a few of my favorite panels after the jump and then leave you to read it.
(continued)
Martin Schneider writes:
During the World Cup, The New Republic had a pretty cool blog dedicated to the tournament, as they had in 2006. It was a fun, eclectic blog, and I enjoyed it a lot. I even wrote a post about Luke Dempsey's brilliant found poem.
There were a few times I wanted to chime in a comment or two, as I often do elsewhere in the blogosphere. Much to my surprise, the site demanded that I log in before (continued)
