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Not to be a spoil-sport, but what good is a dictionary if you remove the word origins? It might just be me but that is the best part of a dictionary.

Per the EU, shutting down a plant can take 20 to 30 years (assuming it is planned and not due to a crisis a la Fukushima) https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/nuclear-energy/decommis…

Back in the day we used to download files from certain FTP servers via an email with the correct terms. I never found it very interesting, but it was novel. It would have been much…

Oh, how shocking! Google is scrapping a project! Someone catch me, I'm going to faint!

I have no beef with 8K in a philosophical or technical sense, but I only worry about bandwidth. To me, 1080p alone is already taxing the infrastructure given the mass of humans inc…

My very first computer purchase was a ZX81 with 16K memory expansion and "high resolution" graphics expansion. Cost a bunch, everything was a tad confusing, crappy graphics looked …

I enjoyed the series produced by public television called "Irasshai". The lessons are available on the Georgia Public Broadcasting site and texts can be purchased from Amazon. For …

Perhaps I am just dense, but the article references, specifically, the "Pro" market. For most pros that I know (and I am among them), our OS choice is often based on our tools, not…

I am sure it was a slow change that we hardly noticed. I think a couple things contributed to this mentality (there are plenty of others): 1) The tragic death of Adam Walsh became …

I had a conversation today at work that was on an unrelated topic, yet still dealt with the difficulty of operating in the vortex of left-leaning politics. The main issue that drov…

Simpsons did it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j73cxLiqc2U

I think most of the networks stream their shows for a short time on their web sites. At this point I just wonder, why not just cut out the middle-man and get on with it? I'll pay f…

I guess it won't be long until the Discovery Channel hosts "Meditating With The Stars" and "Ultimate Meditation Championship".

For a fleeting moment, my work-weary eyes thought the title was, "Alabama Is Said to Move Toward an I.P.O. in the U.S.". After recognizing my mistake, I decided my first reading wa…

He didn't stop eating. He stopped chewing.

I think that comment is Quickmeme-worthy. http://www.quickmeme.com/Captain-Hindsight/

Way back in the 90's, when this new-fangled web thing was just starting to take off (especially the .com side) I was teaching an "Introduction to the Internet" course at my college…

I know this is all still proof-of-concept, but I think the only feature that was even remotely interesting in that demonstration was the ability to bridge your display to an adjace…

In other news, scientists find that water appears to be wet.

While I agree with your points in the technical sense, I think there is a more overarching concept that is the "hard part": There are too many people who want to "make it" in the m…

I think this is broken. I entered, "Bite my shiny, metal ass!" and all I got was some weird, Barney-like purple robot. I'd suggest special sub-routines for certain phrases includin…

Yikes! I can foresee potential pitfalls when one loses track of the cap and the Sharpie!

"This week, each one of you has a homework assignment. You're going to go out and start a fight with a total stranger... You're gonna start a fight...and you're gonna lose."

I'll get my mom on this right away. :)