Is this a dagger I see before me? (Signifying Nothing: how does saying nothing at all become so loud?)

Wednesday, 1 September 2004

Is this a dagger I see before me?

Since the Canadian libertarian bloggers are doing it, it must be cool. I hereby endorse the emerging dagger (†) convention for attributing links ~~stolen~~ borrowed from other weblogs or sites, even if it may make people think the target of the link is dead or is subject to being changed to some other cool-looking character (such as þ or ☣, the latter being highly useful for linking to Atrios or LGF) in the future.

4 comments:

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1. Brock Sides wrote @ Wed, 1 Sep 2004, 10:32 pm CDT:

I’m rather partial to the þ myself, since it looks like a tipped hat. I can’t even tell what that other symbol is supposed to be.

2. Len Cleavelin wrote @ Thu, 2 Sep 2004, 8:43 am CDT:

The other symbol looks like the biohazard symbol to me. Which is perfectly appropriate for Little Green Footballs….

3. Chris Lawrence wrote @ Thu, 2 Sep 2004, 12:07 pm CDT:

Yeah, I think you need a full-range Unicode font, like Arial Unicode MS, installed for that one to show up properly. (It doesn’t show up on my laptop either…)

4. OF Jay wrote @ Fri, 3 Sep 2004, 12:23 pm CDT:

Why stop at one character, when a four-char. smiley can also work? (”,)

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