xmz » Culture http://xmz.mx by Xavier Muñiz Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:24:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The habits and needs of a little-understood group http://xmz.mx/2011/07/27/the-habits-and-needs-of-a-little-understood-group/ http://xmz.mx/2011/07/27/the-habits-and-needs-of-a-little-understood-group/#comments Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:39:12 +0000 Xavier Muñiz http://xmz.mx/?p=324 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.

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

Otto Rahn, the original Indiana Jones.

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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.

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