Unrelated to the article, but I'm a big trackpad user and, man... I sure hate it when websites hijack my scrolling / pinch + zoom functionality. Totally throws me for a loop.
The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)
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#62> Carve something into plastic, on the other hand, and it can survive decades. Substitute plastic for metal, and you just turned decades into centuries. "I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted."
Ironically, most of the metal stuff doesn't survive from antiquary. For instance most statues were in bronze not marble, but since metal can be easily recycled the only metal statues that survived are from ship wrecks.
Stone is a safer bet to survive the centuries, but even those are reused as bricks, like the Rosetta Stone:
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe those are car license plate numbers.
British ones of various vintage, with RFS 131Y the oldest of those, from 1983.
My old Volvo 340GLE 1.4, first car after I passed my driving test. Awesome things, engine at front, gearbox at back, 50/50 weight distribution, enough torque to break traction if provoked, inoffensive enough not to freak out your girlfriend's dad.
Perfect car for a 20-year-old.