We’re always hunting the web for the latest news from the world of pens. But sometimes, what we find is just an odd collection of the curious and the amusing.
Totally Random Pen Stuff 1 is a round-up of interesting pen related blog posts that we have recently come across.
You might be surprised at how many there are. Some are recent, and a few go back several years, but …
Yeah, it’s probably a long, long shot, but a website run by a Parker Pen collector is putting together a petition in hopes of convincing the company to create an archives/museum when it closes its British factory later this year.
A promotional pen company has just launched a new product for people who fear their writing instruments might be out to get them. The Antibac antibacterial pen is a “certified superbug killer” that supposedly wipes out the nasty germs that are crawling around on your pen, trying to infect you.
•The Independent has published its list of the 50 Best Stationery items. Making the cut: the Waterman Expert, the Uni Kuru Toga and Uni Posca marking pens, Stabilo highlighters, the Yard-o-Led Diplomat, and, inexplicably, Bic Cristals.