Breathe Here: Punctuation Marks Explained Once and For All

Before punctuation was standardised, scribes wrote in scriptio continua — continuous script, no spaces between words, no marks between thoughts. Reading was an act of decoding. You had to speak the text aloud to find where one thought ended and another began. Punctuation did not arrive to impose rules. It arrived to give the reader permission to breathe.

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Debian codenames & Toy Story characters

Debian release code names are derived from the names of characters in the movie Toy Story. Here is a list of Debian releases accompanied by images of their corresponding Toy Story characters,

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Morrissey Was Right

Memory seems to have failed my friends; they have forgotten the road that leads to my door.

Technology seems to have failed my friends; they are unable to use Google Maps to find the way to my home.

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The Pretense

You’ve lost weight, I hear them say
But I feel heavier than lead inside
It is confusing, sure I gotta weigh

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