It's its and other crazy grammar things

Was talking with folks last night, and it came up that I (somewhat deliberately) mis-spell "its" as "it's" when I write. Other folks thought I was nuts, but I have back-up. Sort of. I can no longer find the original source I had on this, but this will do:

http://www.word-detective.com/back-d.html

Also, for what it's worth, I also tend to use quotes and parentheses
as "balanced delimiters", long before I read ESR's evaluation of this
as part of a hacker aesthetic:

http://www.iwar.org.uk/hackers/resources/faq/jargon.htm#Hacker%20Writing%20Style

Oh, and while I'm on the subject, one space after periods:

http://www.webword.com/reports/period.html

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