Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why interrobangs are secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.
LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:
- Katie Goldin on Bluesky
- @ProBirdRights on Bluesky
- ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
- When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)
RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
- native-land.ca
- U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
- The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
- “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
- Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
- Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)
RESEARCH SOURCES:
- Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield
- Shady Characters: The Secret Life Of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston
- Here are two uploads (example 1, example 2) of initial interrobang concept art, reprinted in the book Shady Characters by Keith Houston.
- Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
- Word Of Mouth: “Exclamation Marks!! Why do we love to hate them?” (BBC Radio 4)
- Obituary: Martin K. Speckter, 73, Creator of Interrobang (The New York Times)
- Americana — Designed by Richard Isbell. Released by ATF in 1966. (FontsInUse.com)
- NRA ‘American Rifleman Magazine’ write-up of the history of Remington companies
- “One Small Step for Man” or “a Man”? (Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum)
- Chess.com index of Chess Notation
- How to Read and Write a Chess Game (The New York Times)
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Ampersands
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