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" ... on the other hand, poets, being liars by profession, ought to have go[o]d memories." --from A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet by Jonathan Swift, dated December 1, 1720.
OTOH, this one's an odd duck: "The Ancient Banner; or Brief Sketches of Persons and Scenes in the Early History of Friends,"* an anonymous poem of Quaker propaganda. It's self-consciously epic-in-style, though not length (~650 lines), with a focus on the New World -- perhaps not surprising, given the Philadelphia printer. From the insider's manner, I can only assume the intended audience is other Quakers, but it may be the author was misfiring at a general audience.
A profile of Edward Tufte, guru of infographics and information design. It sounds like he may be heading into the cranky old guy stage of guru-dom, but I still constantly refer to his books for they are Good and Useful and Right. (via)
Inforgraphic of 10 most commonly misused English words. I want to see the stats for the "most commonly," but I do see these frquently -- and am guilty of one of them. (via)
* Note that the date on that website is wrong: Gutenberg's edition agrees with WorldCat and a couple bibliographies that it should be 1846.
---L.
OTOH, this one's an odd duck: "The Ancient Banner; or Brief Sketches of Persons and Scenes in the Early History of Friends,"* an anonymous poem of Quaker propaganda. It's self-consciously epic-in-style, though not length (~650 lines), with a focus on the New World -- perhaps not surprising, given the Philadelphia printer. From the insider's manner, I can only assume the intended audience is other Quakers, but it may be the author was misfiring at a general audience.
A profile of Edward Tufte, guru of infographics and information design. It sounds like he may be heading into the cranky old guy stage of guru-dom, but I still constantly refer to his books for they are Good and Useful and Right. (via)
Inforgraphic of 10 most commonly misused English words. I want to see the stats for the "most commonly," but I do see these frquently -- and am guilty of one of them. (via)
* Note that the date on that website is wrong: Gutenberg's edition agrees with WorldCat and a couple bibliographies that it should be 1846.
---L.