Some helpful links, or whatever.

"Have you ever copied some text from a web page, a word document, help, etc., and wanted to paste it as simple text into another application without getting all the formatting from the original source? PureText makes this simple."

Interested in a first-hand account of a strumpet named Rita?

Also sent to me by the ever-watchful Susan Kirkland, "Access Copyright is a lobbying organization that's trying to be like the big musicians' org that collects licensing fees. Another corporate entity
setting itself up to profit off creatives. Drives me mad."

Everything, and I mean everything you wanted to know on dashes.

Don't recognize any of the words in that review other than "book"? A glossary of literary criticism.

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