Interesting Links for 14-05-2016

[andrewducker]

Tap is a wearable that turns any surface into a keyboard (tags: Technology writing ) The last US woman born in the 19th Century has died (tags: history death ) A Eukaryote without a Mitochondrial Organelle (tags: biology evolution life bacteria ) How London became Britain's capital has just been revealed for the first time (tags: london history

Comments

[kalimac]

"The Goat, the Wolf, and the Cabbage, OR: Poor Purchasing Decisions"

Around here, that typographical choice would suggest that Cabbage is the name of a town in the state of Oregon.

[drdoug]

I love that I was able to establish very quickly that there is in fact a Cabbage Hill in Oregon, off the I-84 in the NE of the state. There's also a district in Atlanta, GA called Cabbagetown, and a district of the same name in Toronto, ON. But nowhere called just Cabbage. Dammit, I'm starting to believe that story isn't entirely accurate.

[skington]

Punctuation choice, I think: if it were written “...the Cabbage; OR: Poor ...” there would be no confusion.

[kalimac]

Decapitalizing the OR would work even better, at considerably less violation of customary practice.

[skington]

I dunno; the capital OR is a pretty common Victorian-era affectation.