Did anyone else catch the Metal Gear sound track, and the 'alert' sound when a sensor was triggered?

I often read short (and sometimes not so short) sentences right-to-left (backwards) if my eyes happen to be to the right as I scan down from above. This is how I read your post, initially.

I didn't notice you'd done anything unusual until I paused to consider why your post was scored +5 Funny.

My feeling about Slashdot is that the submissions (and posts) should be heavy on links to references (such as Wikipedia where appropriate).

And that descriptions of terms can therefore be left out since this isn't print, and we may as well save the space (and mental bandwidth) since we have this handy new hyperlink feature.

Unfortunately far too many submissions are just the leading paragraph of the story copy/pasted, and painfully obviously not meant for this audience. Why these are even accepted (or, god forbid, not rewritten by the editors) is incomprehensible to me.

And slightly more apropos of the article: by random coincidence I've just received, while typing the above, an IM from a not-particularly-technical friend of mine who is telling me she's watching the back-catalog of Lost on Netflix instant-view. The long tail indeed.

You can see one stage of the STS Emergency Egress system demonstrated in this video at about 1:30.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZFwwGx8dLU

You did a lot of typing in your post. I think perhaps you could have saved a lot of it in your quest to enlightenment if you'd have chosen a text field on a different web page. May I suggest http://google.com/ and the phrase "earth sun l2"? The first link even has a very descriptive map. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point

You sir, seem like someone who would benefit from viewing a hi-speed video of a hummingbird hovering...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3XT6qoNMMQ

I still don't know why some people feel that the short version of Apple Macintosh needs to be typed all uppercase (MAC).

But now you've got me really confused by only capitalizing the acronym for Media Access Control.

Been playing a bit too much Dawn of War 2 lately have we?

You abandoned your blog because you had nothing interesting to say? ... I wish more people would do that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Keychain

I'd be willing to wager they 'postdate' Keychain, as it came with "System 8.6" in 1999. And the functionality existed in many functions of the OS in the form of PowerTalk (shared printers, network shares, e-mail, etc) starting in the early 90s before it was split off and made directly available to 3rd Party applications.

Incidentally, Keychain has been Free (as in beer) and Open Source (as in APSL) for 'some time' now. It would be cool to see the various Unix-y distros pick it up too. Though the implementation might be a little crufty, having descended from an in house Apple project from the early 90s.