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did he just say something sacrilitigious?

FACE­BOOK GETS MY AT­TEN­TION in the early morning hours as I sip my coffee and wait for that part of my brain/mind that ra­ti­o­ci­nates to kick into gear. I scroll through my time­line and when an in­ter­esting image catches my at­ten­tion, I read it, and some­times chime in. I try to be pos­i­tive and hu­morous: yes­terday I made a some­what silly com­ment on someone’s Face­book page and I coined a word that somehow re­lated in some way to the orig­inal post: ‘sac­ril­iti­gious.’ [Read more] “did he just say something sacrilitigious?”

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hermits cranks pseudoscience and martin gardner

MARTIN GARDNER WAS A SKEPTIC. He was oné of the first ‘modern skep­tics’ and one of the most im­por­tant. He made his liveli­hood as a math­e­matics and sci­ence writer. He is per­haps best known for cre­ating and sus­taining gen­eral in­terest in recre­ational math­e­matics for a large part of the 20th cen­tury through his “Math­e­mat­ical Games” column in Sci­en­tific Amer­ican mag­a­zine (1956–1981). [Read more] “hermits cranks pseudoscience and martin gardner”

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and some other elements of typography

IN MY PRE­VIOUS POST,robert bringhurst and the el­e­ments of ty­po­graphic style,” ad­dressed the po­etry that the au­thor brought to his lengthy trea­tise on the his­tory and im­por­tance of ty­pog­raphy. If Bringhurst’s prose did not com­pletely hook you but at least piqued your in­terest in type, then read on, so that I may sug­gest two more books on the subject. [Read more] “and some other elements of typography”

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another example of what not to do when publishing

EX­AM­PLES OF what not to do when pub­lishing your work comes in pub­lished form all the time and I thought I would pass this one on as an­other note for writers. I re­ceived this bit of spam this morning and just thought that I would pass it on as a lesson in how not to write a letter—or any­thing else other than a title. [Read more] “another example of what not to do when publishing”

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mark twain on the united states as a Christian country

MARK TWAIN seems to have had some­thing to say about any­thing and every­thing, and ex­cept for his be­lief that Will Shake­speare was not the au­thor of any­thing that bore his name, I tend to agree with the old cur­mud­geon about every­thing and anything—including his take on cer­tain cit­i­zens of these here United States as­suming that we all live in a “Chris­tian country.” [Read more] “mark twain on the united states as a Christian country”