2015-06-16 (Tuesday)
Links
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Signs at the Royal Festival Hall | Journal | Hyphen Press
On the typefaces used, then and now.
Tweets
@rrosencr There’s plenty to keep you occupied!
@rrosencr 1662, as it says in his bio :) The tweets are from “today’s” entry in that year. e.g. pepysdiary.com/diary/1662/06/…
@revdancatt Very good!
That’s the one: “@hautepop: @philgyford WEIRD - white, educated, industrialised, rich & democratic nations”
@hautepop Yes. thank you! I should have remembered the word.
@russelldavies Ah yes, that’s it, thanks. I can release some brain cycles.
Re decline of WASP: twitter.com/GreatDismal/st… I’m trying to remember a newer, similar acronym. Western something something something? Anyone?
Where has the WASP on my childhood gone? The White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, epitome of whiteness in the ASP. The term seems extinct now.
@denisewilton Stop nagging @tomstuart! You’re so strident and shrill!
@denisewilton Give them a chance! They’ve got to work out how to make the iOS keyboard’s Shift key less confusing first!
Re yesterday’s query about the demolished structure by the Millennium Dome, it was the Round google.co.uk/search?q=http%… (first result) ta @phl
Liked tweets
I mean, from this time last year… “Nicky Morgan and the plan to turn the Department for Education into Fifa” … how did that go?