Period. Space (Just One).

“Can I let you in on a secret? Typing two spaces after a period is totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong.

And yet people who use two spaces are everywhere, their ugly error crossing every social boundary of class, education, and taste.”

“Space Invaders: Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period,” Farhad Manjoo, Slate

Hat tip: Maria Popova

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Microsoft Word Must DIE!

Tom Scocca, managing editor of Deadspin, feels dread when he gets an email with a Microsoft Word document attached:

“Time and effort are about to be wasted cleaning up someone’s archaic habits. A Word file is … cumbersome, inefficient, and a relic of obsolete assumptions about technology. It’s time to give up on Word.”

“Death to Word: It’s time to give up on Microsoft’s word processor,” Tom Scocca, Slate.

It’s a long article, 1405 words with 7596 characters. How do we know? We pasted it into memory-hogging, metadata-infested, editorially intrusive Word and used the word count feature. That’s really the only thing the program’s good for.

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