Marlow’s Listener

House of Lords Journal Volume 12 – 12 December 1667 | British History Online: “Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:”

Our Middle Name: “The many forms that a font’s ampersand can follow are generally informed by its historical context, the whims of its designer, and the demands of the type family that contains it: after the jump, a tour of some ampersands and the thinking behind them, along with an explanation of the storied history [...]

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus – Here Comes Everybody: “I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking about sitting with his four-year-old daughter watching a DVD. And in the middle of the movie, apropos nothing, she jumps up off the couch and runs around [...]

Ray Kimball: The Next Generation: “We joined to be platoon leaders. Our perception (which I believe to be accurate) is that the time between Platoon Leader and Battalion Commander is largely spent contriving PowerPoint slides and sitting at a desk.”
(Via The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com.)

Three Words That Could Overthrow Physics: “What Is Magnetism?” | Subatomic Particles | DISCOVER Magazine: “‘that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an [...]

Bowling 1, Health Care 0 – New York Times: “I am saying that every analysis that is shortened, every corner that is cut, moves us further away from the truth until what is left is the Cliffs Notes of the news, or what I call strobe-light journalism, in which the outlines are accurate enough but [...]

Interview With Donald Knuth: “keyboard shortcuts that make bookwriting a little bit like playing an organ”
(Via Daring Fireball.)

Law Blog Lawyer of the Day: David Laufman, Friend of the Mini-Dulcimer: