Coming @ You
Random thoughts on punctuation and other typography (image: p.116 of ascii64 The @ Book, by Patrick Sneyd) '<dd>Common: at sign; at; strudel. Rare: ear; vortex; whorl; [whirlpool]; cyclone; snail; ape; cat; rose; cabbage; ...
Rise of the Machines
(image: http://bit.ly/1qqjlEB) As an 11-year-old boy in 1982 and the proud owner of a Casio J-100 digital watch – the cutting-edge of inoperable wrist-based LCD technology at that time – Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner was a revelation to ...
Editing on the Front Line
Mightier than the sword? (image: http://bit.ly/1xExFxe) 'When the world blows up and the final edition has gone to press the proof-readers will quietly gather up all commas, semicolons, hyphens, asterisks, brackets, parenthesis, periods, ...
Write a Better Book Blurb
The word 'blurb' was coined in 1907 by Gelett Burgess (image: http://1.usa.gov/1lR3pZA) 'Blurb 1. A flamboyant advertisement; an inspired testimonial. 2. Fulsome praise; a sound like a publisher... On the "jacket" of the ...
Sign of the Times
Random thoughts on punctuation and other typography Jim Thorpe, hashtag daddy (image: bit.ly/1iptbss) Before twitter formally adopted the hash symbol in July 2009, this typological obscurity was the subject of much mystery. Unlike every ...
Ampersand Addict
Random thoughts on punctuation and other typography An ampersand addict faces her cold turkey (image: http://bit.ly/UcIASG) ‘It is one of the worst things about our detestable time that this ancient… thing “ampersand” is ...