Artline are well known for their huge range of quality pens & markers. They say that things flow better when you use them! I’m going to see if the Artline Softline 1700 proves them right.
General Interest
Chinese Bureaucrats Are VERY Particular About Their Ink
Found this while net stumbling and it seemed worth a quick share.
There’s one thing you really need to know if you ever plan to do business in China.
Choose your pen carefully.
Frankenstein And Other Handwritten Manuscripts Online
If you love reading and you love old handwritten documents, here’s a suggestion: some rainy Sunday afternoon, make yourself a cup of your favorite tea, curl on the couch with your tablet and read some of history’s most famous books in their original handwritten form.
One of the most recent to show up online is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, made available by the Shelley-Godwin Archive.
The collection offers both her notebooks and her working drafts of the book. Fortunately, the pages are accompanied by a helpful transcription of the text, exactly as it was written, because her handwriting looks like maybe she was dictating to Frankenstein’s monster.
And that’s only the beginning.
USA Stationery Slang That Brits Need to Know
I have to admit, as an American, my inner 12-year-old gets to giggling whenever one of my British colleagues refers to an eraser as a “rubber.”
That’s why I enjoyed this BBC piece translating common office terms for Brits working in America and vice versa.
Prismaclolor Marker Helps Birds Mate!
Let me just preface this post by saying: I take no responsibility for any ideas that anyone may or not get from reading this.
NBC News had an interesting story from Australia detailing how ornithologists were able to affect the mating habits of two subspecies of fairy-wrens simply by using Sharpie-like markers on them.