TV Spot 2 - Where Will You Be? Following Daringfireball’s link to Apostrphe Atrophy (whose site seems to be down, hopefully termporarily), there was a flurry of comments on MetaFilter militating in favor of straight quotes: I always turn off “smart quotes” in Word. I think it looks pretentious. I agree! Up with the “dumb […]
Joan Acocella’s review of the Iron Whim, a history of the typewriter that I discussed in an earlier post, has apparently prompted a minor dispute in Nietzsche scholarship. Nigel Warbuton of the Open University reports Accocela’s claim that Nietzsche used a typewriter. Indeed he owned the Hansen writing ball: The writing ball was developed by […]
As this blog is about the technology of writing, perhaps it is not too far off topic to post about its history. The New Yorker currently has a review of The Iron Whim, A Fragmented History of the Typewriter by Darren Wershler-Henry. While writing machines were being designed since at least the eighteenth century (many […]
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