Modern trainers cause running injuries:
BS-1363 for everything right now.
Our newest building has a lot of sockets with a new European power plug topology, where you jam it in and rotate it.
I can't find anything about it on the web, though.
I use magnets for whiteboards, and thumbtacks for pinboards and cubicle walls. Blu-Tac, putty, or similar for other surfaces.
This poll is really revealing the most common wall surfaces used for sticking notes to, not people's stiction preferences.
As I understand it, the US mainstream media is almost entirely owned by a small handful of companies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownership
They often have a vested interest in the stories they choose to report on or avoid.
e.g.
> Reporters Steve Wilson and Jane Akre were first asked by FOX News and later bribed,
> to downplay a story they had on a cancer-causing growth hormone called Posilac
> which is growth hormone for dairy cows which is absorbed by humans through milk.
> The reporters decided to blow the whistle on FOX News and filed a law suit.
> After the ordeal was over, it was discovered in the appeals court that it's
> actually not against the law to falsify the "News."
http://behavioralhealth.typepad.com/markhams_behavioral_healt/food_and_drink/
> a pay-per-month model of getting access to a DRM-free library does sound good
Q: So, how much is that?
A: It's basically infinity dollars.
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/05/20090515.jpg
Back in University, I had a friend doing Civil Engineering.
He had a clip from the yellow pages on his dorm room door. It read:
"Civil Engineering: See - BORING."
Here are a couple of good opt-outs for the UK:
Telephone Preference Service - no more junk phone calls.
http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/
Mail preference service - no more junk mail (snailmail).
http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/
Anyone got any more?
Ever seen 'Survivors' (1975) ?
Here's the opening sequence, depicting the accident with the bottle, and the subsequent rapid spread of the disease.
Quantity is no substitute for quality, but its the only one we've got.