It's complicated.

Well, for starters, you want a damn good spam filter.

Ubuntu One is a similar service, running native on Ubuntu systems. I wonder whether that has the same built-in vulnerability.

Who says they have just started doing that?

Did you notice that they even didn't display an @, but instead showed an "A" in a little circle? Apparently, in 1994, not all keyboards had the @ sign.

It was probably the unexpected attention that the elderly mice got, that made them feel happy and youthful. That, and a placebo effect.

I run a little program on my Kubuntu laptop called Basket. It is no more than a container for every kind of information imaginable - text, images, links, you name it - but it has been incredible in helping me organize things. I tried everything from pen-and-paper to Lotus Organizer, and at one point started to build my own application just for keeping a diary and similar stuff. But Basket simply has it all.
In fact, it comes with a set of files that you can import and implement David Allen's Getting Things Done (see note above).
Highly recommended. And I have no affiliations with the developers.

Being awesome: your doin it rite.

Oh come on. Twitter clients like Tweetdeck automatically shorten links that you paste into them.

How can there be a "West Antarctica"?

This machine used to be on permanent display in the Evoluon, a museum dedicated to technology and modern art in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. See here. This site is run by a man named Kees who may be able to answer your questions.

ecco, tibi fixi .

Behind each of the models, there is a faint picture of a Volkswagen Beetle. At first I thought of some form of subliminal advertising, but they must have needed some way to show relative height. And a Beetle is of course fairly universal.

When you invented this trick, what did you think you were doing?

As a Dutchman, I draw the line at Belgium.