links for 2010-02-04

"A new technique for analyzing early English texts is gradually revealing the history of the apostrophe." [via @EvilSue]

"Simply add the width, an 'x', and the height (example) of the image you want and my script will spit out a gray box to the size you want with the image dimensions in black Arial text centered in the middle of the box." [via @mattbalara]