Bookmarks for 14 September through 28 September

  • Typographic Marks Unknown – Retinart – A brief history of the pilcrow, ampersand, section sign, asterisk, and hedera, with comments on usage.
  • H&FJ News – Pilcrow & Capitulum – A brief history of the pilcrow–that “reversed ‘P’ for paragraph” character–with some samples.
  • MeetBot – Debian Wiki – “MeetBot is designed to assist in running meetings, taking notes, and so on. It is in pure python, as a plugin to supybot.”
  • Zint Open Source Barcode Generator – “Zint is an Open Source barcode encoding and image generating library written entirely in C and released under GPLv3 or later.” In particular, offers QR code output in SVG format.