The Pencil Riots

I know this article was about the history of the technology of writing, but I can't get past the part of the article where he mentions that "to his knowledge, no one rioted over the pencil."  I can see it now.  People with their torches and pitch forks, burning pencils in effigy!  I laughed so hard while reading that.  Otherwise, it was an interesting article.  Better than the others we read (mainly because Baron has a good writing style that is interesting and engaging) but I also liked reading about the history of writing.  This was a good article.  (I know this is a short post, but I didn't have much else to say about the article.  It was easy and straightforward)