Morning Coffee – 24 December 2018
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.
- Long live QWERTY.
- Artsy explains why pencils are traditionally yellow.
- Extending copyright benefits intermediaries more than creators.
- What’s with all the hate on semicolons?
- Here are six book genres you haven’t heard of yet.
Comments
Bandana December 26, 2018 um 10:24 am
That semi-colon article is absolutist [bunk]. Semi-colons should be used judiciously and with nuance, not banished from our literature. Arguments to avoid them completely hit that sweet spot between juvenile and Trumpian.
Nate Hoffelder December 26, 2018 um 10:48 am
agreed
Ken February 26, 2019 um 10:35 pm
Interesting history for how the color yellow was used on pencils. I never it depicted the geographic location of graphite and also royalty in the Chinese culture. You really learn something every day.