Wow… I always thought of bugs as little more than self-reproducing low-level biological robots, but I didn’t realize they had bugs of their own. 😉 If this happened in practically any other species, the entire group affected by it (and the genes responsible for it) would essentially cease to exist, because once locked into it …
So take that and blow it out your saddle-bags, reactionary eighties parents! 😉
I haven’t had a chance to use this myself yet, but it looks intriguing. Maybe enough to convince me to abandon my Velcro-fastened shoes, even if they are efficient.
I switched to Thunderbird for my e-mail and RSS a few years ago, because it was cross-platform, open-source (so I didn’t have to worry about the company abandoning it if/when they decided they weren’t making enough money with it), and worked with GPG so I could still have my secure e-mail. I have never been …
That explains a lot: they’re mentally ill. Something we “numerates” have long suspected. (Sorry for the pay-wall, it wasn’t there when I first wrote this post. There’s what seems to be a complete copy of it here, though I don’t know for how long.)
Our cell phone company has just started adding a $2 charge for any customer that still receives a mailed bill. They’re promising to donate an additional $2 to a charity for any customer that goes paperless, too. I expected this sort of thing to happen years ago. Companies have been touting paperless billing for more …
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Not a very good illusion, in my opinion, but it might help.
Nothing to add to this, just thought it was very interesting. And, of course, the Monty Python reference (in the original article) is always appreciated. 😉
I’ve mentioned my love/hate relationship with upgrades before. Yesterday I had another check-mark for the “hate” column. I’d run into a minor compiler bug in my Ubuntu version of GCC. Since a new version of the OS had just been released the day before, promising even faster bootups and other improvements, I thought I’d upgrade …
As mentioned before (in posts such as this one), we share our house with three feline companions. Winston has always been our problem child, usually by his attitude that litter boxes are optional equipment. He’s also the original scaredy-cat, almost always looking around wide-eyed and running away from everything, including us. Last night GoddessJ, who …