Killings brings you our fortnightly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us.
Proper spelling be damned! Should our txt lexicon become a language of the future?
The weird and wonderful images captured by Google Street View
The automaton behind Hugo
Romance novel sentence diagrams
Henry Miller’s daily routine
It was David Foster Wallace’s birthday on February 21. Here are 46 things to read and see in celebration of what would have been his 50th birthday
10 biopics that actually worked
Breaking out of 2D – another look at the possibilities of digital publishing
The torrid and occasionally crude love letters of famous authors
