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At Orsha, the nickname “Ramp Tramp” puzzled many Soviet pilots and engineers, even those familiar with English. One rough translation offered was “Unshaven Vagabond,” which still b…

This lets you run the images under KVM: https://github.com/lentinj/ie-vm

In a British context, "the provinces" is a rather pejorative expression for the rest of the country outside London. It doesn't refer to Canada.

> For countries that are based on a unique language, ethnicity and culture, it is damaging. Where are these places? Very few countries are based on a unique language, ethnicity, or…

Its absence has been a persistent irritation to me. I'm glad that I can now retire this: https://github.com/threedaymonk/furigana-shim

You can achieve the same thing with the RefControl add-on, which allows you to set a custom referrer for a particular site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontro…

I follow a similar philosophy. At the moment, I have two near-identical factory-refurbished x220's, each of which I've upgraded with an IPS screen, 16 GB RAM, and an SSD. One stays…

> You have the choice not to consume any content or to consume free content. Over the years that I've watched this discussion, I've come to notice that people who advocate for payi…

It seems to be more than that. For example, I typed in my mobile phone number, and it correctly identified the operator as "Hutchison 3G UK" (i.e. 3), which it now is - but it's a …

I have heard that the Muirhead Tower (at the University of Birmingham) was originally designed for paternoster lifts, but due to legislative changes was built with two regular lift…

That sounds similar to Self-Destructing Cookies[1], which I'm using. Has anyone tried both and can compare them? 1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct...

> as long as I can virtualize efficiently with virtualbox or something You can use VirtualBox on Linux, but QEMU with KVM is, in my experience, far more efficient, and a lot less b…

Here's the user script I use (I've not allowed Flash on my computers since about 2010): https://github.com/threedaymonk/userscripts/blob/master/yout...

Bluhell is touted as a lighter weight solution. I haven't taken measurements, but Firefox Mobile certainly feels snappier with Bluhell than with Adblock Plus/Edge.

Bluhell Firewall does work on Firefox for Android, if you're looking for an ad blocker while you wait for µBlock.

If you buy a TV and plug it in but do not connect it to an aerial or satellite, you do not need a licence. You need a TV licence to install or use a television receiver per the Com…

As a customer, there aren't many circumstances. The only one that springs to mind is when buying airline tickets with a credit card (but not a debit card). Where it makes more of a…

> Hangul is perfectly readable linearly letter by letter Here's an example of printed linear Hangul: http://imgur.com/yasWNfW

If you're flying into the international terminal (which sounds like the case here), it's right next to the BART station anyway.

I can confirm that 'womb' is a perfectly normal word here in the UK. It's no stranger than 'fortnight' or 'autumn'.

NuGet doesn't quite work just fine on Linux, but it's getting better. Slowly. http://nuget.codeplex.com/SourceControl/network/forks/threed...

Whether "tox" sounds like "talks" will depend on whether or not your dialect exhibits the cot/caught merger. To those of us without, it sounds very different!

There is no issue. Both learned and learnt are acceptable and attested for the verb, pace the OED: learn, v. Forms: Pa. tense and pple. learned /lɜːnd/ , learnt /lɜːnt/ .

Last time Amazon gave me a free trial of Prime, I tried out the free rental. As best as I could make out, it was only possible to use it by browsing on my Kindle, which was a rathe…

Pedestrian crossings in the UK are rather unusual compared to most other countries in the world, in my experience. In most places, crossings work on a parallel/perpendicular system…