Here’s a great site: www.lettersofnote.com. As the site says, “Letters of Note is an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos. Scans/photos where possible. Fakes will be sneered at. Upda...

Code Organ turns web pages into music. It’s fun to compare the style and beat of different URLs. The Code Organ algorithm uses letters on the page to find the most used note, selects a major or minor scale, and then based on the tot...

I’m a little late in posting this, but it’s too awesome to pass: Shaun Usher’s Letters of Note has a copy of a 1905 letter sent by Mark Twain to a patent medicine salesman who tried to sell bogus medicine. Twain was furious to have ...

Diehard fans of the Alien quadrilogy are bound to know the history behind this story, but casual fans might be surprised to learn that H.R. Giger, the Swiss artist who designed the iconic xenomorph at the center of the franchise, wa...

Mark Twain would have made an excellent blogger. The man had a wit and eloquence difficult to match, and he was not afraid to use his skills. Fortunately, some of his writing can be repurposed for blogging – Letters of Note brings u...

The wonderful "Letters of Note" blog has this gem of a letter, written in 1905 by Mark Twain to a fraudulent medicine salesman. Nov. 20. 1905 J. H. Todd  1212 Webster St. San Francisco, Cal. Dear Sir, Your letter is an insoluble puz...

Letters come in so many shapes and forms... When Peter Hall first alerted you to the website Letters of Note at the end of last year, he talked about The Birth of North by Northwest. The letter was an interesting and revealing commu...

This week I was moved by a post on the excellent website Letters of Note. It involved a 14-year-old animation fan who, in 1998, penned a letter to his hero, Ren and Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi. ...

Today, another awesome Letter of Note, this time from comic artist John Kricfalusi, best known for his work on Ren & Stimpy. Letters of Note writes: In 1998, aged just 14, aspiring young cartoonist Amir Avni decided to get in touc...

A screenshot of part of John Kricfalusi's heartwarming letter as it appears on Letters of Note. Ambition, for the fledgling among us, can be equal parts talent and hero worship. For many, the first step on the road to success ...

From the same folks who brought us the excellent Letters of Note comes Letterheady, a collection of interesting letterheads. Includes letterhead from Albert Einstein, Adolf Hitler, and my favorite: Robot Salesmen Ltd. Tags: design...

Letterheady is a new blog that showcases interesting letterhead designs. It’s from the same people who run the wonderful Letters of Note blog. via Neatorama This is a blog post from Laughing Squid, subscribe via RSS, Email, Twitter ...

(L) Walt Disney Productions – via COHASCO DPC (R) Frank Zappa – via Kill Ugly Radio Robot Salesmen Ltd. – via We Made This From Shaun Usher of (sadly now defunct) deputydog and the fantastic Letters of Note blog, here comes Letterhe...

       The January issue of Open Letters Monthly is now available online -- note also that they've redesigned the site.

Are you familiar with the website Letters of Note? If not, the title is rather self-explanatory. It's a blog that shares with the interwebs interesting letters written by, well, interesting people. I'd recommend checking out the sit...

The always-interesting Letters of Note blog has uncovered a chilling hidden page from history: A letter dropped into Japan one minute before the second atomic bomb, warning a Japanese scientist to plead his leaders to save their cit...

Note: I have edited and paraphrased these two letters to protect the privacy of the writers, whose jobs might be jeopardized. I indicate where I have completely summarized with italics and parentheses. However, I have made every ef...

I just got another email from somebody whose email signature is “So-and-so, MBA.” Which reminds me of the business cards, and letters, and promotional material I see where people brandish those three letters after their name. I don’...

An excellent summary and editorial, well worth the read. Note that Hayward apparently reads WUWT, as he references the “CRUtape Letters”, first published here. – Anthony Excerpts of: Scientists Behaving Badly A corrupt cabal of glob...

The Chum BucketA very cool find: 20-year-old David Bowie's response to his first American fan letter. [Letters of Note via Stereogum]Daniel Merriweather stops by the KCRW studio for a stripped-down acoustic performance....