Have you seen the new eBay commercial about the guy and his ink pen?
Apparently, eBay is trying to reinvent itself – less of a used goods auction site, more of a shiny new things marketplace – with an advertising campaign that makes fun of, among other “old” things, ink pens and the people who use them.
Totally Random Pen Stuff 10 is a round-up of interesting pen related blog posts that we have recently come across.
Like most of you, we try to keep up with the blog and web activities of our favorite pen makers, but somehow we’ve managed to miss – until now – an intriguing project that Uniball is running online.
The Vision blog isn’t what you might expect from the company that makes some of the best gels and rollerballs in the world.
The blog isn’t really about pens, even though it’s named for a range of Uniball pen. Not exactly, anyway.
• A man who robbed a Walgreens pharmacy in South Carolina this summer apparently wasn’t fully prepared for job.
Greenwood Today reported that Robert Sexton, 33, walked into the drug store and went to the pharmacy counter, where he asked a clerk if he could borrow an ink pen. She handed one over – and he used it to write a robbery note to her.
Schools across the United States are phasing out cursive handwriting, making it a hot topic of debate among educators, students and researchers.
So, CNN has responded with a brilliant series of articles about handwriting, all linked to a “cultural census” the network is taking that asks everyday people to submit samples of their own handwriting for review and public display.
(Look below to see what we’re doing to encourage our readers to participate.)