femto (10^-15) = Danish femtem (15),
atto (10^-18) = Danish atten (18),
zepto (1000^-7) = French sept (7) but with a z,
yocto (1000^-8) = the Greek okto (8) with a y I guess to differentiate from 8,

...then it stands to reason the next prefix (1000^-9) will come from some language's 9, preferably one with a t in it. These could be:

French: neuf
Greek: ennea
Latin: novem
Albanian: nente
Russian: devyat
Many Slavic languages: devet

My money's on devto.

The autopayment system that I use allows you to set a rule such as "If bill is under $X then pay in full." If the bill is over, then I have to examine the bill and pay the appropriate amount myself. I set X to the average plus a sigma or so.

Of course, if some robot at a company decides to go nuts and start sending the same bill every day, the exception will never occur and my account will get emptied in a hurry. But then that hasn't actually happened in the 15+ years I've been using this same system.

I bot-added a little over 1,000 asteroid pages on the Latin Vicipaedia, consisting of an infobox and two short paragraphs (with references) of auto-generated text. The pages are slowly being added to, taking them out of stub status. We had discussed adding pages for all the named asteroids, of which there are over 50,000. For comparison, en: doesn't have all 50,000+ but does have pages for about 20,000 of them. In the end we decided not to inflate our pagecount, and just stuck with the first 1,000, plus a few higher-numbered notable asteroids.

Will we see the death of Microsoft's .lit format [microsoft.com] in favor of Kindle's .azw?

Oh, I hope not. Both formats suck compared to epub, and azw (i.e. mobipocket) is an extremely stripped-down version of html. Lit at least has more html functionality. But I hope both formats die.

My own take is that Microsoft wants to put out an ebook reader which will probably use Amazon's patents, so Microsoft probably told Amazon "Nice patent portfolio you got here. Be a shame if it burned down. You should have insurance!"

I always check first, via riaaradar.com. If the artist is represented by the RIAA, then I don't buy the CD, I don't buy the song on iTunes, nor do I pirate it, either. There are plenty of non-RIAA artists to lavish my limited funds on.

Any advice from a woman about what they would like?

Also, Valentine's Day isn't just for a man to do something nice for a woman. A woman could do something nice for a man.

Or, y'know... a man for a man. If both men are into that kind of thing. Because if he's not, then it will sure be a surprise, and not the good kind.

OTOH, landing in a bed of inelastic potato chips wouldn't be particularly painful (though it would be itchy).

As well as delicious.

The iPad can run iPhone apps, and the SDK is available now. App developers will be falling over each other to be first with new apps taking advantage of the larger screen.

Isn't it the case that yes, the SDK is available, but you would still have to go through the app store to get your app into the hands of The People? And that means jumping through the Apple app store hoops?