Anne reminded me of this quote as we were reading a discussion started by james_nicoll:

( Is nostalgia better now than than it used to be? )

I wonder if this is also the first ever reference in English literature to Japanese tourists?

I've been wondering about how widespread support for different alphabets is out there, so what better way to find out than by doing a quick poll?

(I used to think this was dependent on what browser you had - I now realise that it entirely depends on what fonts are installed on your system.)

( poll )

Myself, I can barely tell the difference between the two Romanian letters, and can't see the Cherokee and Ogham ones at all... (In fact I think I've screwed up the code for them both...)

Poll #460557 Orthography supplemental
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Can you see either of these letters: (Cherokee te) Ꮦ and (Ogham t) ᚈ ?

I can't see either myself, but I've learnt how to put them in livejournal entries - you write Ꮦ and ᚈ and they look like this:

and

To read and digest later. Via Daniel Drezner.

Space-time for Springers by Fritz Leiber is on Sci Fiction this week.

"Gummitch was a superkitten, as he knew very well..."

The Mark Thompson Story, from pickwick.

This is of course the Mark Thompson who is the Director-General of the BBC. My predecessor in my current job was also called Mark Thompson but as far as I know he has never bitten anyone.