Cormac McCarthy & the semi-colon
Found via Language Hat: one writer's prescriptivism horror story. This one is about style differences, not imagined grammatical errors, but it still angries up the blood.

NYT Magazine - The Road to Clarity
A lengthy article on the birth of Clearview, the new highway sign font, along with some thoughts on fonts generally.

stationary vs. stationery
Fight homonym confusion! I found two of these yesterday, and after double-checking at Bartleby, I wrote back to the writer in question with the advice that "stationAry is the Adjective."

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