strange radiation: quarks archive
Random bits, strange and/or charming. Or likely to make you angry. Or possibly just here so I know where to look for it later. Wander through them as you will.
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- A History of Punctuation [via] (29 Sep)
- The interrobang has an HTML entity? No kidding‽
- Figures of Speech [via] (17 Sep)
- For everything (trope, trope, trope) there is a season.
- Lincoln on an Emu Egg (13 Sep)
- (Doo-daaah, doo-daaah.)
- Linux on a Badger (11 Sep)
- Other animals of family Mustelidae can be used in place of a badger, but an adapter may be required. See Appendix II for details.
- Encyclopedia Arda (10 Sep)
- Between this and wikipedia, no geeky question too obscure.
- Field Guide to Fonts (09 Sep)
- If Roger Tory Peterson was a fontophile: figure out the font used on whatever you happen to be looking at.
- The IPA (07 Sep)
- Aka the International Phonetic Alphabet, aka the singer's friend. Also great for telephone note-taking.