Well slap my thigh, if it isn’t the Windmill Friday Feeling!

Social networks: a 21st century phenomenon right? Wrong, according to this article, which tracks Voltaire’s 18th century Republic of Letters, a powerful influence on the Enlightenment.

While I’m not exactly a ‘grammar Nazi’ (I make far too many mistakes myself to ever be called that) I do wince at the state of some people’s Facebook spelling. Others do rather more than wince, as these Obnoxious Responces to Misspellings on Facebook attest.

One of the things I love about the internet is the random stuff that you come across that makes you think afresh about something extremely commonplace. So, we have this: The Unsung Heros of Biscuit Embossing. Brilliant!

AND FINALLY, because we are a publishing blog after all, it’s only right that we end with The World’s Most Inspiring Bookstores according to Salon.com. Good weekends all!