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Poetics of the "swung dash"! (Since I am teaching Sterne this week, this is highly relevant - was just forwarding this link to a student in the class, and there is also the superb book Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West.)

KindRED spirits?

Via Amy Klein!

PNEUMATIQUE

Dreaded PDF alert, but - Molly Wright Steenson at Cabinet on the wonders of Paris's pneumatic post!

Cross-tabs

In Errol Morris's roundabout inquiry into whether his deceased brother was the co-inventor of email, this paragraph caught my eye:

The funeral was in Brookline, Mass., at the Levine Chapel. I knew that my brother had friends, but he worked unendingly, and I was worried that nobody would be there for the funeral. There was my mother, my step-father, and my two step-brothers and step-sister. And, literally, hundreds of people. It was absolutely filled. People were standing in the back. I had the picture of my brother as isolated. Julia asked me, “How did they all find out?” And I said, “They communicate with each other using computers.”