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Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period — Slate
IBM builds a supercomputer to play Jeopardy — AP
Pharo to offer shares denominated in renminbi — FT
How much would you bid for a piece of paper with a chap’s name on it? — eBay
NJ gov Christie’s idoitic ‘bankruptcy’ comments derail bond issue — Bloomberg
Joe Nocera is moving to the NY Times op-ed page — Forbes
Mark your diaries for April 30: it’s the New Amsterdam Bicycle Show! — NABS
Amy Chua says the Wall Street Journal misrepresented her book with its excerpt — SF Gate
J.P. Morgan Chase to end services for diplomats — WaPo
“Every day, 50,000 new men are trying to get naked,” he says. “What we’re doing is selling the naked men” — Fast Company
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Um, I read Manjoo’s two spaces screed for the entertainment value, expecting to see a photo of him foaming at the mouth as he was writing. This person seriously needs to get a life, and I want a receipt for the ten minutes it took me to read it.
For some reason, the Pharo link sends me to the Front page of the FT, and not to whatever article you are citing.
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First I’ve ever heard that “two spaces” is outmoded. Guess I’ll adapt, but it sure feels wrong to use just a single space!
@TFF – I learned to type on a manual Underwood when two spaces was the standard. Since the widespread use of proportionally-spaced fonts, it’s gone out of style. I’ve never seen anyone get worked up about it like this before, though!
My high school papers were prepared on a basic electric (mono-spaced) typewriter. Happily personal computers came into vogue by college.
“The market is very sensitive to the word ‘bankrupt.’”
That makes two of us.
Great post as always Felix. I do believe, however, that Mr. Christie’s timing was “idiotic”. Slightly ironic.
Wow, that Slate article was the ultimate waste of space–never mind the two spaces after the periods.
Actually, I have seen technical writing editors frothing about the double space. However, as far as I can tell, Word automatically adjusts the double space width to the same width as a single space in its proportional types so it doesn’t appear to significantly impact the visual appearance of a document.
So, it appears that technology has solved the problem that it caused for us that learned on old typewriters.