Short Schrift

This is something very small, but I feel like I should have known it by now. On German and English keyboards, the "Z" and "Y...

Cornelia Vismann, from Files : Those who work with records are familiar with the problem: files pile up on desks, accumulate in offices, an...

The Zombies, "This Will Be Our Year"

A few new blogs in my RSS on the early modern period, esp. history of the book: Mercurius Politicus and Wynken de Worde . WdW won the Cliop...

-- The Clientele, "Reflections After Jane"

It's becoming clear that the continuing raison d'etre of Short Schrift is as a repository for posts that are too nerdy for Snarkmark...

I have a soft spot for Nerve's "Dating Advice From..." column, especially when it's advice from nerds. This week it's ...

Some of these links have been cocooned in my RSS reader for over a month, waiting for their posts to spring forth, like infant alien monster...

So I'm at the Wawa to use the ATM, and on the way out a guy asks me for change. I say "no, sorry," and walk past. As I...

Best line in a movie review this year (at least for me) is from Stephanie Zacharek's review of Clint Eastwood's Gran Turino : Even ...