29.12.08
Footnotes to Plato: that's how Alfred North Whitehead famously characterized the European philosophical tradition. All the general themes and many great ideas already appear in Plato's dialogues. Even though their writings...
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20.12.08
m•Box Mail, iPhone Love Hotmaol, has been updated with welcome additions: the Windows Live Hotmail client for iPhone and iPod touch now lets us delete messages in bulk — and...
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20.12.08
"Winter". Think of the word, if you will, for a minute. What does "winter" — or "wint-" — sound like? "Print" maybe, or, "wind"? "Wind", in fact, could be whence "winter" developed;...
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20.12.08
A golf hole's size depends on whether you hit a double-eagle or a quintuple-bogey. The relationship may work in the other direction just as well: successful golfers see bigger holes. Arguably,...
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20.12.08
Gmail sports a fresh look lately, plus 30 more: choose among as many themes (from sober to flippant). Meanwhile, in the Gmail labs: a fine and simple task manager built right...
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20.12.08
The elegance and the speed and the download: would you rather have this or an "elegant, speedy download"? Hendiadys — using two nouns in place of a noun and its qualifier...
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20.12.08
A small figure, a child with blond hair, white pajamas and probably wings: where I come from, the Christkind — Christ Child — brings the presents on Christmas Eve. The...
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20.12.08
In 1980 B.C., Thebes in Egypt overtook Ur as the largest city on earth. The title went to Babylon 210 years later, yet Thebes has been the largest metropolis for the...
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20.12.08
Let's add some rum! The liquor quite transformed the French milk-egg-yolk-and-cream drink: lait de poule (chicken milk) became egg-and-grog — "grog" being a term for rum, of course. Later, egg-n-grog became...
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20.12.08
"You", in Tok Pisin, is the concise "yu" — and "yupela" for you all. Now, mailing yupela in Windows Live Hotmail, make sure you don't reveal all the addresses to ol...
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20.12.08
PowerMail, the Mac user's email command center, comes in a fresh version that improves rich-text support; you can now compose emails using HTML (albeit in slightly clumsy a manner) and...
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