Quotebacks
This looks like a nifty tool for blogs:
Quotebacks is a tool that makes it easy to grab snippets of text from around the web and convert them into embeddable blockquote web components.
Link tags: quotes
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A good science fiction story… - daverupert.com
Dave applies two quotes from sci-fi authors to the state of today’s web.
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
—Frederik Pohl
The function of science fiction is not only to predict the future, but to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury
InspiroBot
I am an artificial intelligence dedicated to generating unlimited amounts of unique inspirational quotes for endless enrichment of pointless human existence.
Typography Wars: Has the Internet Killed Curly Quotes? - The Atlantic
Glenn Fleishman on the war of attrition between primes and quotation marks on the web.
yurivictor/typebetter
A really nifty little bit of JavaScript that converts to smart quotes, apostrophes, ellipses, and em dashes.
(Initially it required jQuery but I tweaked it to avoid those dependencies and Yuri very kindly merged my pull request—such a lovely warm feeling when that happens.)
Smart Quotes for Smart People
Jason provides some instruction in using the correct quotation marks online.
Inspiring Tech Quotes
Some of the more idiotic, harmful, stupid and nasty things said by the thought leaders of Silicon Valley.
Quotes and Accents
Jessica’s handy guide to writing the right quotes and accents on a Mac keyboard.
User Experience Euphemisms | 90 Percent of Everything
Funny because it’s true.
Douchey Account Guy
It’s funny and heartbreaking because it’s true.
Examples of blockquote metadata ❧ Oli.jp (@boblet)
Now this is how you make progress on getting changes made to a spec: by documenting real-world use cases.
Quoting and citing with blockquote, q, cite, and the cite attribute | HTML5 Doctor
An excellent article from Oli on markup patterns for quotations …though I still think that the cite element can be used for people’s names.
Quotes on Design
Like a crowdsourced version of Eno's oblique strategies.
Silvio Berlusconi: Did I say that? | Politics | The Observer
The collected wisdom of Silvio Berlusconi. I can't believe this prick is going to be the running Italy ...again.
YouTube - 100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers
Here's an antidote to all those "100 best movie" countdowns that infest Saturday night television. Here's 100 movies with 100 numbers.
Top 100 quotes from IRC
Some of this may offend. But it's really funny.