Shady Characters
The secret life of punctuation.
- By Keith Houston
- Based in United Kingdom
- Roughly seven posts per year
- First post on
Posts per year
| Year starting | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 |
| 2022 | 6 |
| 2023 | 34 |
| 2024 | 7 |
| 2025 | 0 |
Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.
Most recent posts
It’s that time of the year again! You: a discerning reader of books about unconventional information technologies (unusual marks of punctuation, say, or pocket calculators). Your friends and family: the same, naturally. But what gifts …
I know, I know; these days, everyone and their five-legged, three-eyed dog is writing a piece about AI. I can’t promise that this one will be more insightful or educational than any of the others, …
Having dispatched punctuation and book news, we’re on to pocket calculators! Incredibly, half a century or more after their appearance, there is still news to be had on the subject. In the introduction to Empire …