Culture

The habits and needs of a little-understood group

July 27, 2011

This is a brilliant essay about how introverts think:

Caring for your introvert
Published in The Atlantic on March 2003.

To those of you who have called me “taciturn”, or even “antisocial”: I politely invite you to read this 1,385-words article by Jonathan Rauch. We can discuss it one day, if you like.

Indy

June 3, 2008

Otto Rahn (The original Indiana Jones) Last night we went to see the new Indiana Jones movie. It’s a great adventures movie, shows Indy just as he used to be, and most of the time makes you think you are watching an 80′s production.

And I found this today in Matt’s blog (via the WordPress Dashboard):

Otto Rahn, the original Indiana Jones.

&: per se, and

April 29, 2008

As both its function and form suggest, the ampersand is a written contraction of “et”, the Latin word for “and”. Its shape has evolved continuously since its introduction, and while some ampersands are still manifestly e-t ligatures, others merely hint at this origin, sometimes in very oblique ways.

Read the full essay about the ampersand (&) symbol, by Jonathan Hoefler.

Via Daring Fireball.