“You can pry Shift+Alt-Hyphen from my cold, dead hands!” That was the thought going through my mind when this article [http://www.slate.com/id/2295413/] entered my flow of information. I've long had a bit of an infatuation [https://chrisbowler.com/journal/would-you-like-that-with-or-without-the-space] with the EM dash. And so, firm in my convictions, I read the article confident in an unwavering stance. Dang … Noreen Malone argues her point well. I know that I've grown too fond of this nice, l…
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Over the past couple of weeks, there has been a decent amount of discussion on the subject of Tumblr [http://tumblr.com/], Posterous [http://posterous.com/] and the rise of the micro-blog. Without recapping all the details, the general feeling of many is this: these services make it so easy to post that the quality of the content produced by the users of these services is very low. And with the rise of blogs like “f*&%yeahwelshcorgis [http://fuckyeahwelshcorgis.tumblr.com/]”, many would agree.…
So this is what it's come to. Three or four years of reading the blogs of web designers and other assorted nerds and geeks—and yes, there is a difference—has brought on this fascination with certain typographical characters. In particular, ever since I happened upon this post [http://www.recedinghairline.co.uk/files/c1c3be2fda2b218e858029a4bde7e96c-397.html] by Christopher Phin, I have been obsessed with the proper usage of the em and en dashes, especially the em. In my search for some consist…