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The not so humble exclamation mark

Two great articles about the growing use and abuse of punctuation in texts and emails: > Before the 1970s, few manual typewriters were equipped with an exclamation mark key. Instead, if you wanted to express your unbridled joy at – ooh, I don’t know – the budding loveliness of an early

Interrobang

The interrobang or interabang[1] (pronounced /ɪnˈtɛrəbæŋ/), ‽, is a nonstandard English-language punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also called the interrogative point) and the exclamation mark or exclamation point (known in printers’ jargon as the bang). The ligature is a superimposition of those two marks.

The Appointment in Samarra by W. Somerset Maugham

There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I

The Indispensable Man by Saxon White Kessinger

Sometimes, when you’re feeling important, Sometimes, when your ego’s in bloom, Sometimes, when you take it for granted You’re the best qualified in the room. Sometimes, when you feel that your going Would leave an unfilled hole, Just follow this simple instruction, and see how it humbles

Leisure by William Henry Davies

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see,

Banned Pepsi Commercial

Salmagundi

The word salmagundi is derived from the French word salmigondis which means disparate assembly of things, ideas or people, forming an incoherent whole. Salmagundi is used figuratively in modern English to mean a mixture or assortment of things. via Salmagundi – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmagundi]

Only one Wednesday this week....

Good news for people with days of the week pants. Don’t have any? Search no more: > Emily Strange Seven Days a Week Pants – Choose from – Mundane Monday – 2s Day – Whens Day Whens Night – Thursdazes – Friday The 13th – Saturday Night – Sundays Best .Emily is 13 years old and wicked

Cannot use parentheses when calling a Sub

> Every now and then someone will ask me what the VBScript error message "Cannot use parentheses when calling a Sub" means. I always smile when I hear that question. I tell people that the error means that you CANNOT use PARENTHESES when CALLING a SUB -- which

Procrastination hack: (10+2)*5 | 43 Folders

I guess there’s a few people out there…. > Of course, this is taken to a hilarious extreme with Joshua Newman’s plan for scheduling just a few minutes of work per hour, and then focusing on the “more important” tasks like DVD re-arranging. via Procrastination hack: ‘(10+2)

The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music

My magazine haul yesterday included * The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music [http://www.thewire.co.uk/] * iDJ [http://www.i-dj.co.uk/] * DJMag [http://www.djmag.com/] Wanted to get another one, can’t remember the name now, but all the CDs were missing (which convinced me the CDs were

I can has weblog?

Someone [http://web.archive.org/web/20110628072416/http://justin-hopkins.com/blog/2008/10/21/is-this-less-fail-why-im-replacing-typo] talking sense. So I set up a wordpress blog. This way I can learn python and ruby whichever way I want. I am different, honest. EDIT: Link updated to waybackmachine.org [www.waybackmachine.org] EDIT:

Escape Game School

Just played “Find the Toast”, looks like they have several “Find the Food Item” games on this site [http://escape.dojin.com/], along with some “cheap english”…

Trip to Shikoku

There are 4 prefectures: Ehime-ken, Kagawa-ken, Kochi-ken, Tokushima-ken Places to visit * Kochi - washi factory? * Matsuyama — best known for the venerable hot springs of Dogo Onsen, inspiration of princes and poets * Takamatsu — the largest city in Shikoku * Cape Ashizuri — a scenic cape at the southernmost point of Shikoku * Iya Valley