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Appoint experts and practice Science?

You certainly aren't alone! Perhaps we sometimes expect too much. You don't listen to music to remember the lyrics, you just enjoy it. And you can enjoy and discard a piece of writ…

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet.

You can kind of use Wikipedia like this. It would be nice though if all content had an audit trail, which you could trace through to the original sources. Could be quite enlighteni…

I remember this site envisioned the idea of realising original content: http://www.kuro5hin.org/ Quite how you measure that though... I always liked the idea.

Impartiality and being un-biased are different things.

Does that mean it takes one abuse of an account to take down a hugely popular domain name? That spam must have been terrible.

How about something like the Finger Protocol?

I'd use them immediately given command line tools, and open protocols/apis.

Excuse me for asking, but when we speak of revenue - we aren't speaking of profits are we? (I'm from the UK.) We have no idea of the net income for those divisions, as the expenses…

I have used the keyboard navigation extension with Chrome, not sure if it's the same one. The Chrome extension works well by default for a touch typist by setting the shortcuts to …

I wouldn't agree that you can easily see a title in a tab! I'd rather a meta key that would bring up the info about the page easily - which listed the URI etc. But the title should…

Just read the small blurb, and it doesn't really give much away. I do think Mozilla are right to challenge current paradigms, and I long for a bit of innovation. The browser UI nee…

More repulsive than what's already there.

I recently considered ditching my cheapo freeview hard disk recorder (UK - Brand Digihome) and replacing it with a media box. I tried out a few distros and open source solutions, b…

i think i could quite easily boycott hollywood. I would prefer to read a book any day of the week than induldge in that hype machine.

Why constrain the definition of an ebook to something analogous to ink and paper?

Thanks - but it is pretty darn low already.

I think you should just leave it down to your desktop defaults, that should ideally be configurable in one place. It's annoying going through each app setting them up individually.…

I can't read a white background unless I'm in a very bright room. Off whites are better for me. But personally I prefer light on dark. But it's a personal thing. I rue the day the …

I switch to light on dark depending on ambient conditions, my study is really gloomy and I work at night, so a bright screen blinds me. On OSX10.4 at least I use the accessibility …

How about if an ebook about Jimi Hendrix contained video and audio content too? Something that went beyond the print version?

Yeah and you can't just pass on your ebooks to a charity shop.

I have a kindle, and I have yet to buy any books for it and wonder if I ever will. To tell you the truth the whole DRM thing is a complete put off for me. Though I do love reading …