Forgotten Bookmarks is this week's interesting blog find: "I work at a used and rare book store, and I buy books from people every day. These are the personal, funny, heartbreaking, and weird things I find in those books."
I like to read Ask MetaFilter because the questions and answers are so often really interesting and helpful. My latest favorite thread is the one in which people answer this question: "What in life did it take you a surprisingly long time to realize you've been doing wrong all along?" We hear from people who never learned to tie their shoes properly (instead just tying together two loops), people who pronounce all kinds of words wrong (such as awry and segue), people who've been driving an automatic car with two feet, and so on. Fun, informative reading.
Check out these 10 common phrases that come from our friend Will Shakespeare.
re. the forgotten bookmark thing. Have you ever been downstair tothe used book section of Hravard bookstore? If you check out the exposed wall space and support columns they are plastered with stuff they've found in the used books.
Posted by: B.O.B.(bob) | July 15, 2010 at 07:36 AM