If you're a scripter it kind of makes sense. Many scripting languages on *nix-type systems have the first line of their script something like this:

#!/usr/bin/env sh

The sharp tells the interpreter to ignore the code (not necessary for a search engine), but the bang tells the environment to "execute this list of commands with the following interpreter". When you use a bang (!) in ddg, you're telling it to "send this list of search terms to the following interpreter"; however, the interpreter is not bourne shell or python, it's google images or the python documentation. That's how it makes sense to me anyway.

Please do tell sir. What product did Mozilla drop Linux support for?

You'd think so until you look at all the people who tought that Obama was a terrorist basing their information solely off of the fact that Obama sounded like Osama. Now we're going to just get a bunch of crazy Tea Party Libertarians saying "Enviros want to destroy the world with their commie-holocaust." Don't believe me? You just wait and see. Crazy people believe crazy things.

It may be slightly harder to find one without DRM, but I've got a pretty good solution that's working out for me. Get a B&N Nook and install CM7 on it (not the simplest process in the world, but it's not too hard with a good tutorial. Then, install FBReader on it (available from Google Play Store, or F-Droid) and get your drm-free books.

Linux users would claim that since soil is better for planting vegetables, everyone should move to soil.

Windows users would be just fine with the sand where it is and get upset if anyone installed firefox on it.