For those who think Linear B irrelevant to Hacker News except as trivia, as a non-technical person at a software company, I was casually consulted by a member o

For those who think Linear B irrelevant to Hacker News except as trivia, as a non-technical person at a software company, I was casually consulted by a member of the W3C CSS3 group on arcane writing systems. One of the questions was "Do Aegean numerals and Linear B symbols need to rotate?" My response was "I'm uncertain off hand, but let me check my linear B book at home." Never thought I'd say something like that at a SW company. In any event, I did check my books, and neither Aegean numerals nor the somewhat related Linear B needed to rotate. Oh, and if you are frustrated by the fact that you can't rotate cuneiform in CSS3, that's my fault.