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Say gang, Steve Jackson Games has been running this daily blog for right at 29 years. They think they may be the longest running blog around. Does anyone know of a longer running b…

Thanks - I'll give this a try.

In the good old days, browsers had pop up blockers that blocked new windows websites tried to open, and all was well. Nowadays, popups are back. I open a site and when I scroll, I …

The key here seems to be the word "many." Alaska Airlines has 289 airplanes (per wikipedia). All the other arguments seem to assume a large consumer type of load - tens of thousand…

This, but with one twist: "... plan through how you could lower your expenses if the hammer falls." Don't just plan - implement that plan now. You won't be any worse off, and will …

Sparkfun measured the forces applied to packages during shipping.

'good product people' jumped out at me. Disney has _passionate_ engineers, not necessarily good. Disney also has the mantra of "we will tell you if your idea is good," rather than …

I'm going to go way out on a limb and assume no one received anything from them. Before I let my cynicism completely go awry, though, I wanted to check if anyone has received anyth…

My company has a "use it or lose it" vacation policy with a maximum number of days we can carry over from year to year. The intent is to force people to take vacations somewhat reg…

Initial commit was 38 years ago. Heh.

Sort of. The "rules" to establish a contact generally state that you have to exchange some data, but doesn't define "data". Mostly this devolves into a simple piece of data - your …

I can't get the math to work to reach 475 million American adults. Our current population is only 347 million and the birthrate is about 1.25%. Running a total for the last 20 year…