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A dot's as good as a wink.

Who killed the semicolon? Paul Collins fingers a 19th-century culprit; Trevor Butterworth finds an American anitipathy to this troublesome punctuation mark. [previously] [via]
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 11:16 AM on June 22, 2008 (68 comments)

Permission to approach the buffet?

Learned handmade plates. For all your law-themed collectible plate needs.
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 10:41 AM on June 10, 2008 (12 comments)

No more posts until Matt starts paying up

Home taping downloading is killing music authorship. The Society of Authors warns that authors will simply stop writing if they aren't compensated for piracy of their work (as unlikely as that seems). Perhaps they should follow the example of Jim Griffin, newly hired at Warner Music to persuade broadband providers to attach a $5 per month surcharge for the benefit of the major labels, in exchange for halting the lawsuits that have thus far been their mainstay weapon against piracy.
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 9:47 AM on April 2, 2008 (88 comments)

Go lie down with a cool wet cloth on your forehead until you feel better

Q. So we're not allowed to say something's boring? A. Of course you're allowed. You just have to explain why. Boing Boing's new moderation policy, by Teresa Nielsen Hayden
posted to MetaTalk by Horace Rumpole at 12:47 PM on March 27, 2008 (6 comments)

He didn’t pay attention to man’s law or God’s law

From the diamond to the street (literally) to your mailbox, one thing is absolutely certain: Nails never fails.
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 11:58 AM on March 21, 2008 (18 comments)

Mr. Good Enough

"Everyone laughs a little too hard for a little too long, not because we find these sentiments funny, but because we’re awkwardly acknowledging how unfunny they are. At their core, they pose one of the most complicated, painful, and pervasive dilemmas many single women are forced to grapple with nowadays: Is it better to be alone, or to settle? My advice is this: Settle!"
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 9:29 AM on February 10, 2008 (146 comments)

Tight on the Spiral

Now that Super Bowl XLII is over, all that remains is for NFL Flims to tell the tale. Documenting the greatest moments of the game since 1962, NFL Films is known for its distinctive style, its stirring music, and, until his death in 1983, the "Voice of God" narration of John Facenda.
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 7:39 PM on February 3, 2008 (93 comments)

Multi-link Mike Post post

If you only watch the opening credits of 279 shows from the late 1980s, make it these 279 shows from the late 1980s.
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 9:44 AM on February 1, 2008 (57 comments)

The library where I work owns half of all the...

Digitizing the letters of Samuel Johnson The library where I work owns half of all the surviving correspondence of Samuel Johnson, and we've begun a project to digitize our collection. So far we've done the first 60 of the 132 folders. Click on the main link for a post on my blog with more information, or go directly to the finding aid, and scroll down to the letters which say "Click for color digital facsimile". I'd be interested to hear any feedback on the experience of using the site.
posted to Projects by Horace Rumpole at 4:59 PM on January 23, 2008

Now if they'd just move back to Boston

Atlantic Magazine opens its archives. Atlantic Magazine announced today that they will drop subscriber-only access to the site, giving full access to every issue of the last 12 years. Where to start? Well, I particularly recommend David Foster Wallace's fascinating examination of right-wing talk radio (DFW trademark footnotes intact), Hitler's Forgotten Library, and Eric Schlosser's The Prison-Industrial Complex. (via)
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 12:36 PM on January 22, 2008 (51 comments)

Fade to black

"One Paramount veteran compared the studio's vault to a teenager's chaotic bedroom. In fact, a visitor accidentally stepped on the negative of "Rosemary's Baby," which was unspooled on the floor."
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 9:25 AM on December 2, 2007 (51 comments)

A great Leporid-American gets his due

Bugs Bunny, greatest banned baseball player ever. A close analysis of recently rediscovered historical footage makes it clear that the little-known Bugs Bunny would have been one of history's greatest baseball players, had MLB's notorious speciesism not prevented him from competing.
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 5:45 AM on December 1, 2007 (20 comments)

RENDITION = reply by private code immediately

ADMIX COCKADE SIGNATION EXPERTS SEPTUAGINT
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 6:04 PM on November 17, 2007 (21 comments)

Donate a little without being pestered for more?

Dear Mr. Rumpole: Thank you for your campaign contribution of $25. Please enjoy our $50 worth of mailings regarding why you should give us more money.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Horace Rumpole at 10:50 AM on November 14, 2007 (25 comments)

Excelsior Springs, you fathead!

When the town of Excelsior Springs, Mo. decided in the 1930's to create a shrine to its renowned mineral waters, they turned to the WPA, which built an Art Deco masterpiece, the Hall of Waters.
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 9:32 AM on November 10, 2007 (17 comments)

Not your father's Christian comics

Move over, Jack Chick. Zondervan's gone manga.
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 10:42 AM on October 11, 2007 (38 comments)

Balls on or Balls off?

Which came first: Cannonballs On or Cannonballs Off? Errol Morris asks a seemingly simple but perhaps unanswerable question about the nature of photographic evidence. (previously)
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 6:32 AM on September 27, 2007 (53 comments)

You say Viagra, I say \/!@&2^

How Many Ways Can You Spell V1@gra? Building on previous research (Cockerham, 2004), Brian Hayes attempts to find the limits of Viagra-spammer ingenuity.
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 10:06 AM on June 27, 2007 (17 comments)

Proving the old adage about opinions

"Not everybody's a critic." Richard Schickel bitchslaps the blogosphere (in response to this) and not for the first time. The blogosphere slaps back. (via)
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 8:57 AM on May 21, 2007 (49 comments)

So, like, what if you turned Turnitin in to Turnitin? Whoa!

Two students sue Turnitin for copyright violations. "All of these kids are essentially straight-A students, and they have no interest in plagiarizing," said Robert A. Vanderhye, a McLean attorney representing the students pro bono. "The problem with [Turnitin] is the archiving of the documents. They are violating a right these students have to be in control of their own property." (via) (obligatory link to the Best. Thread. Ever)
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 10:32 AM on April 2, 2007 (166 comments)

Oscar the Grouch

AMPAS ankles Oscarwatch skein The Academy has brought the banhammer down on the Oscarwatch blog, issuing a demand that blogger Sasha Stone cease and desist from using the Oscar trademark in her domain name. Why now after 7 1/2 years of blogging under that name? Maybe because they found out about her whopping $20k yearly ad revenue.
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 9:54 AM on February 9, 2007 (18 comments)

I very much want to post the collection of comic...

I very much want to post the collection of comic valentines found here to the blue, but I'm worried the site navigation is so convoluted that the thread will be nothing but complaints about it. Can this post be saved?
posted to MetaTalk by Horace Rumpole at 9:54 AM on February 1, 2007 (24 comments)

Did Fox tamper with Idiocracy?

I got my first chance to see Idiocracy last night, and I loved it, but I'm left wondering how well the film I watched reflects Mike Judge's intentions.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Horace Rumpole at 10:07 AM on January 14, 2007 (9 comments)

Back in my day, we got our movies on shiny little disks, and we liked it!

Netflix is dead. ...or so claims Robert Scoble (others disagree). Wal-Mart couldn't do it, Amazon couldn't do it; has Verisign produced a Netflix killer?
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 4:02 PM on January 11, 2007 (81 comments)

In other news, tulip futures were unchanged

The Decline of the PS3 Grey Market: Purchases by eBay arbitrageurs were one of the primary drivers of the Playstation 3 release date frenzy. Predictably, the bubble has now burst.
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 7:11 AM on December 30, 2006 (74 comments)