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via languagehat: punctuation and the tyranny of the know-nothing editor.

at Shorpy: ‘October 1940. Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, tying up cauliflower in his vegetable garden. Rabbit fence made of juniper stakes. Pie Town, New Mexico. 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Russell Lee.’

‘A spectre is haunting contemporary cinema: the shaky shot. Viewers have been protesting for some years now… The Bourne Ultimatum, this summer’s wildest excursion into Unsteadicam, has put the matter back on the agenda.’

“the process against Galileo,” declared the former Cardinal Ratzinger 17 years ago, “was reasonable and just.” Galileo is surprisingly readable, btw, if you can get past the mind-twisting way they did maths without algebra.