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I'm reminded of this post I read regarding links that read "I forgot my password". I thought maybe wording it as "click here if..." would improve that but I somehow intuitively kne…

Scott Adams is basically a sort of older version of Chris Chan. A cartoonist whose unreliable narration of own life became part of the whole performance. But thing is—boy who cried…

A few others are saying, "well yeah, duh!", but this to me demonstrates a mental fault that arises in calling GNU+Linux, "Linux".

Except China actually keeps their ultra wealthy in line.

A newborn's eyes are not focussed.

The first example website given here is described "just text with minimal styling." It's not just text though, it's hypertext? Since when did everyone lose sight of what hypertext …

I object to the statement that a Black woman is a woman. This is a distortion of language and science.

They're saying it doesn't amount to a syndrome.

The UK House of Lords has a quota of 92 hereditary peers, descendants of Norman conquerors.

This is beautifully articulated. I myself thought for a long time that if the day ever came that Assange walks free, I'd cry, but instead I feel a strange emptiness inside. The wor…

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We have airing cupboards in the UK. Cupboards with shelving that keep the hot water tank, so it's built around using waste heat from that to now and then dry damp clothes. It's not…

Same!

I couldn't find independent use of the term "Frutiger Aero" outside of this article when it first blew up, so I guess this coined it. Why "Fruitger" Aero. This basically smacks of …

I agree, it's a bit disorienting.

Agreed. Astounded how stretched the word piracy is nowadays, I've been seeing it used for even stuff like using an ad-blocker. My policy is to only use it to refer to actual at-sea…

This article refers to "public intellectuals" as only being men.

When I watched that in cinema I couldn't help divert my attention to a family of two adults and two children in the rows ahead of me who left a third the way through. Wonder what t…