October 2009
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I Made a Quiz →
Inspired by this quiz about short NBA players, I created my own quiz on sporcle:
Can you name the NBA players who have scored 50 points or more in a game?
The answer, so far, seems to be “no”, as no-one that has attempted it has managed to name more than 80 of the 106 players who have achieved the feat.
Yes, my quiz is ridiculously difficult.
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The ampersand →
Adobe’s history of the ampersand.
The term ampersand, as Geoffrey Glaister writes in his “Glossary of the Book,” is a corruption of and (&) per se and, which literally means “(the character) & by itself (is the word) and.” The symbol & is derived from the ligature of ET or et, which is the Latin word for “and.”
(Previously, on While You...
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“Jeffery Steingarten’s Vogue essay Playing Ketchup, collected in The Man...”
– —Dan Jurafsky, in a, frankly, fascinating essay on where tomato ketchup came from*, how it developed, and why the “tomato” in the name isn’t redundant.
* Hint: Who invented basically everything?
(via @thatwhichmatter)
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WatchReturning briefly to the theme of British basketball, check out this video of Guy Dupuy’s new dunk at Midnight Madness a few weeks back.
As J.E. Skeets put it on Ball Don’t Lie “Never before has someone done an off-the-bounce, over someone standing, between the legs dunk. Well, at least not on camera. I do it every other Thursday — barefoot. Whatever. No big deal.”
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