(b)logophile

Our institute is about to move to a new location. We all have to pack our books and papers into crates to be taken to the new building, where we will unpack them again (if they arrive intact, or at all). Of course that means going through old files deciding if they should be packed [...]

Ooer. As counterpoint to the coffee-madness song-and-animation I posted about recently, here’s Early Modern Whale with a pamphlet from 1674: For the continual sipping of this pitiful drink is enough to bewitch Men of two and twenty, and tie up the Codpiece-point without a Charm. It renders them that use it as Lean as Famine, [...]

From a Pharyngula post I learn that the Museum of Jurassic Technology has a website. Magnificent. (A few years ago I picked up Mr Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders, about the MJT and its proprietor, in a fit of whimsy and a second-hand bookstore. Highly recommended.)

Not-my-supervisor Robert put me onto this hilarious design, which it seems he found at Laughing Squid (original by Steven Frank): Laughing Squid has a follow-up with a bunch of other typophile tees.

Hans H. Wellich is responsible for Indexing from A to Z, for which he may someday be forgiven. G. Norman Knight, on the other hand, for Indexing, The Art of never will be. The references are from the Preface to the less frolicsomely titled Indexing Books (Nancy C. Mulvany), which arrived from India (!) today. [...]