I found it sort of interesting that this article about user experience mentions a related article in the first sentence but doesn’t link to that article.

Isn’t that a fundamental user experience issue? Linking?

Just sayin’.

Flavorwire brings us 10 obscure punctuation marks that, they say, deserve more play. I’ve always been a fan of the interrobang, but the acclamation point (pictured above) sure feels like a stretch to me: It looks like the surprised expression of some 1960s underground comic character.

I do, however, really like the exclamation comma and the question comma — they seem genuinely useful and, to the point of the article, really do deserve to be accepted into general use. It’ll never happen, of course; imagine all the rework of fonts and keyboards that would need to happen to accommodate a popular new punctuation mark, much less two of them.

Dexter Gordon was born this day in 1923. Here he is in 1964 performing “Loose Walk” in Holland. If those opening bars sound familiar, you probably own the Lyle Lovett and His Large Band album.

So there’s this manner of speaking, right? And it’s getting really annoying — more annoying than uptalk, I think. It seems to be very common among political pundits and tech podcasters, right? And it’s becoming more  pervasive all the time. Chris Hayes on MSNBC is a particularly frequent user of this verbal tic, and it might be even more irritating than his relentless fast-talking, right? Because once you’re aware of it, it seems to be everywhere and it’s profoundly annoying, and it takes the listener’s focus away from the point being made and toward a level of annoyance that just gets greater and greater all the time.

So, yes: right. We get it. Just stop asking us, drop the word from your vocabulary and move on.

Am I wrong, Dude?

The word of the day is “murmuration.” Here’s a pretty cool video illustrating it.