15 | November | 2011 | puppet wrangling

I put no stock whatsoever in the Tarot (beyond what the individual being “read” reads into it), but Alexander Chee’s article on it is surprisingly interesting:

Fortunetelling is easy to ridicule, frequently misunderstood, and, for some people, extremely powerful. Unfortunately, whatâ€™s very tough to predict is what reading futures will do to the person with the cards. [via]
Terry Gilliam on the making of Brazil. [via]
Jack The Cat Found After Two Months In JFK Airport. There’s no way the film rights to this haven’t already been bought. [via]
13 Punctuation Marks That You Never Knew Existed. Unless, of course, you did. Or unless, like me, you think some of these are maybe more accurately referred to as typesetting marks. But, hey, a list!
And finally, Google lately seems bound and determined to make their products more difficult to use, don’t they?

Day: November 15, 2011