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
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@rrosencr There’s plenty to keep you occupied!
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@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/…
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@revdancatt Very good!
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That’s the one: “@hautepop: @philgyford WEIRD - white, educated, industrialised, rich & democratic nations”
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@hautepop Yes. thank you! I should have remembered the word.
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@russelldavies Ah yes, that’s it, thanks. I can release some brain cycles.
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Re decline of WASP: twitter.com/GreatDismal/st… I’m trying to remember a newer, similar acronym. Western something something something? Anyone?
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Where has the WASP on my childhood gone? The White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, epitome of whiteness in the ASP. The term seems extinct now.
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@denisewilton Stop nagging @tomstuart! You’re so strident and shrill!
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@denisewilton Give them a chance! They’ve got to work out how to make the iOS keyboard’s Shift key less confusing first!
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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
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I mean, from this time last year… “Nicky Morgan and the plan to turn the Department for Education into Fifa” … how did that go?