If you want to follow conversation threads relating to this show on social media—whether Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, Tumblr—you know to look for the hashtag: #99pi. In our current digital age, ...

In his new book, “Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks,” Keith Houston reveals the stories behind esoteric punctuation marks, from the pilcrow (¶) to ...

Jedidiah 'Jedi' Alex Koh is the Founder of Coaching Changes Lives, Asia's leading Coaching Firm Specializing in Team Leadership Development. Leadership renewal and succession planning has been, and ...

Not being a tweeter, I rarely think about the octothorpe, now known more commonly as a hashtag. I do mark students’ papers by hand, though, and one thing I tend to insert — when no one is spelled as ...

From the Times Literary Supplement, Sept. 30: Twitter users may not know it but they are likely to be addicts of the octothorpe, a symbol with a Latin provenance. Now more commonly known as the ...

The hash, the pound sign, the number sign, the hex–whatever you call it, the four-stroke cross-hatch possibly born at Bell The hash, the pound sign, the number sign, the hex–whatever you call it, the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The technology field is ripe with peculiar acronyms, vendor names and abbreviations. To compound ...

An investor proposes a merger between Barnes & Noble and Borders. How Herman Melville saves us from post-Nietzschean nihilism. Palle Huld, the elusive real-life inspiration for Hergé's tufty-haired ...

Language is supposed to help us describe the world. So why does it leave us pointing at things and saying “that little ...

We haven't seen a typographical resurrection like it since the @, an obscure accounting symbol meaning "at the rate of", was pressed into service to form the first email address in 1971. According to ...