If only ... presumably people do actually read their comments, just as they presumably do look at themselves in the mirror before they go out. Still, it is a nice thought, from xkcd.
It was, perhaps, the most inauspicious start to a TedTalk I’ve ever known. A shiny guy, wandering back and forth, telling the audience that soon they would be experiencing the top notes of a fragrance, Beyond Paradise, which had been split up by the perfumer who created it for Esteé Lauder into...
If only ... presumably people do actually read their comments, just as they presumably do look at themselves in the mirror before they go out. Still, it is a nice thought, from xkcd.
Why is it hotter in summer than in winter?
That was one of four science-ish questions that Jonathan Drori put to TED in February 2007. As it happens I knew the answer to that one and to the other three. Drori said that it was surprising how few people, including -- gasp -- MIT students, knew the...
You probably don't have time for coffee, whereas with a Microsoft installation you have time for dinner or a trip to the cinema.
Oh no! I think I may have machine envy. The Wombat has an Asus EEE PC 1000. But, how good is the keyboard?
If it was an inch bigger I think I could use it for...
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I didn’t think I would be, but I’m really rather peeved by the way my WordPress update worked out. And not just WordPress. There seems to be an obsession with making things more complicated -- possibly just for the sake of it -- rather than with making them wo...
