Friday, November 3, 2023
Welcome back to Wolmania. I am confident that you will love this issue. Read on.
Item 1: a link
Wood computer
David Pierce from The Verge talked to this guy who built himself a wood computer. This is the story of that wood computer. Pretty cool idea but I'm holding out for a titanium phone.
Item 2: a list
![Punctuation marks in English. Also, noting here for the record that I am aware I ranked English punctuation marks on April 22, 2022. This is different because now I'm ranking *American* English marks.](https://newsletter.wolmania.com/content/images/2023/11/Punctuation-Marks-in-English.png)
American English punctuation marks, ranked
- Comma (,)
- Em dash (—)
- Semicolon (;)
- Slash (/)
- Question mark (?)
- Elipsis (…)
- Brackets ([])
- Exclamation point (!)
- Quotation marks (“”)
- Period (.)
- En-dash (–)
- Apostrophe (‘)
- Parentheses (())
- Colon (:)
- Hyphen (-)
- Single quotation marks (‘’)
- Braces ({})
Note: obviously we here at Wolmania love the interrobang (‽) but, alas, it hasn’t really caught on. We’re also intrigued by Hervé Bazin’s proposed additional punctuation marks:
![the "irony point" or "irony mark" (point d'ironie); the "love point" (point d'amour), or "love point"; the "conviction point" (point de conviction); the "authority point" (point d'autorité); the "acclamation point" (point d'acclamation); the "doubt point" (point de doute)](https://newsletter.wolmania.com/content/images/2023/11/--the-irony-point-or-irony-mark--point-d-ironie-4-.png)
Item 3: a media recommendation
Superbus - Radio Song
Item 4: word of the week
Contumely
Look, throw all the vitriol and contumely you want at me - I can take it. Just leave my bichon frisé out of it.
Item 5: a photograph
![](https://newsletter.wolmania.com/content/images/2023/11/2016-Galapagos-59.jpg)
See ya!
Thanks for reading. See you again next week.
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