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](http://www.jessicaclary.com/blog/?p=973) caring about **apostrophes** as much as I do

[You Look Nice Today](http://www.youlooknicetoday.com), 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](http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/bramah.html) 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](http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07052007)

The **disadvantage** of an elite American education persuasively [argued](http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su08/elite-deresiewicz.html) by William Deresiewicz

Using a true “et” ampersand like Trebuchet’s to write et cetera as