Lets try it.

:i

Red Hat Appoints Robyn Bergeron First Female Fedora Project Leader<esc>

:s/First Female/Robyn Bergeron as/

Hmm, I get:

Red Hat Appoints Robyn Bergeron Robyn Bergeron as Fedora Project Leader

Perhaps you should try

:s/First Female/as/

Of course you're fortunate to have those options. Otherwise you'd have nothing good to eat!

t can be located above the '4' key on most keyboards...

Well, on my Dell keyboards it's the F4 key (slightly offset), but on my HP and Sun keyboards it's F3.

Don't you mean QB?

Chinese, Jewish, or other lunar-based date

Except the Chinese calendar is lunisolar, that is, there is both a lunar and solar component. The Chinese calendar throws in leap years to keep in sync with the seasons. Islam, on the other hand, uses a (mostly) lunar calendar so the dates of events such as Ramadan drift compared to the seasons.

The summary reads like an angry teenager implying that they could do better.

Because they can do better. Starting from the Soviet Union days, the Soyez launch systems had an amazing success record. All the problems they've recently point to a falling of standards. From the bottom of the page:

But as a space launcher, the R-7, with upper stages, became the most successful in history. By the year 2000 over 1,628 had been launched with a success rate of 97.5% for production models.

The MiG-25 was obtained by the West after a Russian pilot defected, aircraft and all. It had nothing to do with a Soviet aircraft being in airspace without permission.

Umm, how do you defect without leaving Soviet airspace? I somehow doubt he had permission to be in Japanese airspace.

Google and it's users seem to be doing a pretty good job of utilizing free text to locate documents.

Not quite. Google does a good job of utilizing free text to locate some documents. If all you want is instructions on how to fix your car or the date that an event happened, getting one good result is all you need. If you need to find every document an agency produced about the toxic effects of a chemical, then finding one good result sucks--you need (within certain error levels) every document.

Would it really hurt to follow standard practices and explain what the acronym is the first time it's used?

Over the next couple weeks or months I'll change clocks as I run across them and get sufficiently annoyed to change them. Bike computers in particular suffer from this; it's unlikely that I'll have the road bike out again until the spring, so it's pointless to change the time on it, not to mention having to look up the keys to change the time. My commuter bike will be used all winter so it's already been set to the correct time.