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Letters of Note -- blog of written correspondence from well-known people

Mark Frauenfelder at 11:16 am Tue, Oct 13, 2009

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Letters of Note is a fantastic blog: "Letters of Note is an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos. Scans/photos where possible. Fakes will be sneered at. Updated 2-3 times every weekday."

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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  • endymion

    This is an absolutely fascinating site. Check it out!

    Of particular interest to BoingBoing readers will be this letter, by Bill Gates, to software “hobbyists”, complaining that they haven’t paid for their BASIC:

    http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/10/most-of-you-steal-your-software.html

  • Antinous / Moderator

    Why do I doubt that Britney Spears has really cool stationery?

  • David Carroll

    Thank you Mark! My favourites so far:

    Philip K. Dick writes a fan letter about Blade Runner:
    http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/09/blade-runner-will-prove-invincible.html

    Hunter S. Thompson rips several new ones into a lazy movie producer concerning the film version of Rum Diary. (NSFW)
    http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/09/okay-you-lazy-bitch.html

  • DWittSF

    And so, Warhol goes off and designs the Sticky Fingers cover…complete with working zipper, LOL. That’s the way to deal with a client!

  • Viktor

    I think I like Mick Jagger more after reading that!