Agatha Christie, J.D. Salinger, Isaac Newton, Ernest Hemingway, and Marie Antoinette are some well known dead people who have been lucky enough to have been sent letters from Celine Song.

Even irregular or spontaneous acts such as writing letters (or emails) may be governed by universal mathematical laws according to research by Dean Malmgren of Northwestern University.
The first is our propensity to continue repeating a task once we’ve started: “Once you send one e-mail or write one letter, you tend to do another,” says [...]

While not particularly easy to discern, a closer look at “Mural”, one of US abstract expressionist artist Jackson Pollock’s most revered works, brings to light what appear to be the shapes of letters that spell his name… a hidden message of sorts from the artist?
I’m now convinced that Pollock wrote his name in large [...]

Your questions answered on how the alphabet came to be in its current format and order.
The modern English alphabet is the 23-letter Latin assortment with three additions hastened by the invention of movable type. W starts showing up in English letter lists in the 16th century, replacing the previous literal double U (or V) that [...]

Posting Christmas wishlist letters to Santa at the North Pole is sooooo last century.
With that in mind @tashmahal has posted her (er, somewhat trifling) requests to Flickr. (I wonder who Santa is meant to be? ;)

300 love letters… a rather public declaration of love, don’t you think?
So I’m telling this boy, one of the boys that lots of these love letters are to, about this project. “I’m writing three hundred love letters and sending them to strangers. The letters are going to be glued to the outside of the envelopes, [...]

We’ve been hearing stories for years about postal delivery services all over the world that are able to miraculously deliver either poorly, or obscurely, addressed mail to their intended recipients.
Is it any surprise then, that of 130 cryptically addressed letters, an arts student in Scotland posted to herself, 120 were delivered?
While working for her degree [...]

How’s this for a photographic assignment, collect photos of trailer trucks that each feature a different letter of the alphabet.
Just so your task isn’t too straightforward, you must track down the appropriate vehicles on relatively deserted roadways, and only at certain times of the day.
Simple, just ask photographer Eric Tabuchi.
Tabuchi has photographed trailer trucks [...]

Type designer Erik Spiekermann in a recent interview talks about the challenge of designing numbers… as if letters would be much easier.
“Anybody can design letters, but numbers are hard. Tech was an interesting challenge that I gave myself: to create a typeface that has no diagonals. When you design numbers, you have to do [...]

Writing Tip: Be Conversational.
While aimed at bloggers, Meryl’s tip can be applied more broadly.
As I write this blog entry, I hear these words in my head and it sounds conversational. To verify you’re writing conversationally, read your writing out loud and see how it flows. When I stumble or feel awkward during the reading, then [...]