New Zealand being the world’s oldest democracy (Icelandic women didn’t get the vote until 1915, and the Isle of Man is not a country, thank you very much)
Jessica caring about apostrophes as much as I do
You Look Nice Today, world’s funniest podcast, is what you would expect from three yappy geeks combining potty humour with Voltaire
“May the sinews of his hams snap suddenly in moments of achievement!”, chant the artisans in Ernest Bramah’s delectable chinoiserie, the Kai Lung stories I recently unearthed from storage
The charango, a ten-stringed South American ukulele played to excellent effect on the latest Minisnap album
That pleasing moment-without-a-name when the song on your car radio and your turn signal are in perfect rhythmic synchrony
The anachronistic typography in the Indiana Jones movie maps (I was proud I spotted the Avant Garde in Crystal Skull)
Having the hatefulness of Comic Sans rudely recognised in the comic Achewood
The disadvantage of an elite American education persuasively argued by William Deresiewicz
Using a true “et” ampersand like Trebuchet’s to write et cetera as