I'd guess they dropped underlining hot-keys because it looked ugly. You can still see them by pressing Alt if you're in the minority that uses them regularly (not being disparaging, I count myself in that minority).

Here's an interesting article assessing some common "misuses" to decide which words it's worth being pedantic about and insisting on the original meaning and which meanings we should give up on. The author bases the assessment on the frequency of the two meanings and on his view of the word's utility and uniqueness in expressing a concept (i.e. what you were referring to regarding "impartial").

Huh, I thought it was a really original idea when I saw this product a few weeks ago: http://www.lenskirt.com/lenskirt/
This one's aimed at taking photos through windows, though, so it'd be smaller than the monitor ones.

Actually he'd have it shot and then pose for photos pretending he shot it. Or he might just skip the cloning part and pose over an existing skeleton and claim he shot that one.

I prefer the original version. I would like to see drinkypoo's wall-mounted HD tablet TV, I think it's an interesting concept.

Golden rice bowl is (you probably could have guessed this) a Chinese idiom meaning a high paying, stable job. Besides, it's not a stereotype, almost all meals in China (and other Asian countries as well) have a rice component. The word for meal is the same as rice.

http://www.targetchinese.com/targetpedia/a-stable-high-paying-job/

Relevant: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/sriracha

DealExtreme have quite a few options to choose from. You put a SIM card in them with a data plan and they send their GPS location to an IP address of your choosing at a set interval.

For personal use you can point the device to the servers at http://gps-trace.com/. They can show you the real time location and history on Google Maps, you can set up a geofence alert (tells you when the device leaves certain boundaries), etc.

One member created an Android app to make configuration easier for a particular model (TLT-2H), so you can avoid the Chinglish manual. (Set up is done by sending SMSes to the device in a particular format, the app automatically produces the SMSes for you with the defined parameters.

Well, yes. At least they were able to get the longest road in the world.

I have a feeling you didn't click the link in my post, since you posted the exact same one. Incidentally, the Peruvian Tourism Ministry created a very entertaining video in Peru, Nebraska for a tourism campaign.

Yeah, they actually have a pretty complete map of all of Peru.

Yeah, Bing is awesome. Did anybody else know that Lima, one of the world's largest cities has approximately 3 streets?

What's misleading is that the advertised price should be equal to the amount of money that you have to pay for it. Where that money ultimately goes is irrelevant when you're calculating the costs to you. Using your logic they may as well just display the business' markup, and say "oh no, the rest of the price is the wholesale price, we're not charging you, just collecting it on behalf of them, like the taxes on behalf of the government."

Obviously the amount of taxes ought to be shown on the receipt for businesses with input credits and for general information, but the pre-tax price isn't the main consideration when you're actually making a purchase, as demonstrated by the grandparent's complaint re: airline pricing.

It's not just airlines that do this though, everything in the US is advertised at a misleading price. You go into a news agent and the packet of gum that says $2 on the shelf actually costs $2.20 or something. It's baffling to me how advertising as if taxes and other charges don't exist can be legal and not fall afoul of consumer protection laws that prohibit misleading and deceptive conduct.

Airlines in Australia have to advertise their flights at the actual price that you have to pay, whereas in the US you have to click through 3-5 pages in the ordering process, possibly registering beforehand before they'll actually tell you the real price, as opposed to the price for some imaginary world where you don't have to pay taxes or airport fees or anything else.