{"id":4862,"date":"2010-07-19T07:32:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T07:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/19\/links-for-2010-07-19\/"},"modified":"2010-07-19T07:32:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T07:32:17","slug":"links-for-2010-07-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/19\/links-for-2010-07-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-07-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2461\">Language Log \u00c2\u00bb The &#8220;pound sign&#8221; mystery<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Yesterday, in discussing Kevin Fowler&#8217;s song Pound Sign, there was some debate about the origin of the term &#8220;pound sign&#8221; for the symbol #.  I suggested that it all started with the substitution of # for \u00c2\u00a3 on American typewriter keyboards, but others argued that # was a standard symbol for pound(s) avoirdupois. I&#8217;ve heard this theory before, but I expressed skepticism about it because I&#8217;ve never actually seen the symbol used that way.<\/p>\n<p>Today, after some further research, I&#8217;m still not completely sure. But I&#8217;ve found a new theory, which I think has a better chance to be correct: it&#8217;s all Emile Baudot&#8217;s fault.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/language\">language<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ranyontheroyals.com\/2010\/07\/abd-el-kader-and-massacre-of-damascus.html\">Rany on the Royals: Abd el-Kader and the Massacre of Damascus.<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Abd el-Kader was one of those men who, in Shakespeare&#8217;s words, had greatness thrust upon him. He certainly was not born into it. He was born in a remote region of the Turkish province of what we now call Algeria, in 1808, to a tribal family living on the edges of the Sahara desert. You would be hard pressed to find a region on Earth from which one of the century&#8217;s most influential men would be less likely to emerge.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/religion\">religion<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/war\">war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_RQjQvxtmK8A\/TEHUWtFLnyI\/AAAAAAAADKo\/HXKgvNxHk7A\/s1600\/Woo+Tablev0.9.png\">Woo+Tablev0.9.png (PNG Image, 1600&#215;1250 pixels) &#8211; Scaled (66%)<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense. 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I suggested that it all started with the substitution of # for \u00c2\u00a3 on American typewriter keyboards, but others argued that # was a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/19\/links-for-2010-07-19\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2010-07-19<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}