Two bad marketing words joined in awful disharmony
Staedtler have been making excellent highlighters for years. There have been various incarnations, but the basic chunky model is the one that most people think of when the word is mentioned. So what possessed them to give this wonderful tool the godawful name of Textsurfer Classic?
March 12, 2010
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A wireless, headless Linux box
If you’re using wireless networking in Ubuntu (or, presumably, most flavours of Linux), you may have noticed that your network doesn’t connect until you’ve logged in and the NetworkManager’s applet has done its thing. This doesn’t happen for wired networks, where you get a connection as soon as the machine has booted. This is all [...]
March 11, 2010
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When I die, think only this of me: Blimey, this is difficult!
The tradition of observing a minute’s silence to commemorate the personal sacrifice of military personnel in past battles has undergone a certain evolution through time, transforming into the preferred method of marking the passing of any figure of public note. This is most noticeable in sports arenas, where the entire crowd is asked to remember [...]
March 9, 2010
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