Computer Science Tragedy
One of the greatest tragedies of computer science is that the names of good programming languages stink.
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History of Manuscript Discovery
Letter from Paul Byer, the USC graduate who is the originator of the inductive method of scripture study.
Plural of axis
Axes is a heteronym, the plural of both axis and axe.
World’s loudest alarm clock
Talk about getting a jolt in the morning! Sonic Bomb Alarm Clock, louder than a jackhammer.
Adobe PDF to become an Open Standard
Adobe submitted its Portable Document Format (PDF) to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to become an Open Standard. I wonder if we’ll see better free implementations of PDF. As of now, Adobe Acrobat is by far the best.
Unfold any folder
The user can unfold any folder and see its sub-folders (User Interface Design, Lauesen 88). Wow! I never thought of computer directories as being unfoldable folders. What a strange way to think of things. It relates something digital to the physical world.