Sometimes you go to someone's office to ask a question, and they're on the phone. So you wait for them to finish the call, or notice you're there and tell the caller to hold the line a sec while they speak to someone, but they continue chatting away. After 5 - 10 minutes, you slink away and send them an email instead. With an email, they have a 'ticket' to remind them you need something, and you have a ticket in your sentmail to remind you that you've asked them a question. It's all centrally held and on the record. It works whether they're down the hall or on the other side of the planet.

In the UK fire drills *are* mandated by law: > You should carry out at least one fire drill per year and record the results. You must keep the results as part of your fire safety and evacuation plan. https://www.gov.uk/workplace-f... I completely agree with your other points.

I'll leave this here in case it's useful for anyone. http://torrentfreak.com/everything-you-need-to-refute-a-file-sharing-legal-threat-100114/

Modern trainers cause running injuries:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1170253/The-painful-truth-trainers-Are-expensive-running-shoes-waste-money.html#ixzz0NlLw3XJN

BS-1363 for everything right now.

Our newest building has a lot of sockets with a new European power plug topology, where you jam it in and rotate it.

I can't find anything about it on the web, though.

I use magnets for whiteboards, and thumbtacks for pinboards and cubicle walls. Blu-Tac, putty, or similar for other surfaces.

This poll is really revealing the most common wall surfaces used for sticking notes to, not people's stiction preferences.

As I understand it, the US mainstream media is almost entirely owned by a small handful of companies.

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

They often have a vested interest in the stories they choose to report on or avoid.

e.g.

> Reporters Steve Wilson and Jane Akre were first asked by FOX News and later bribed,
> to downplay a story they had on a cancer-causing growth hormone called Posilac
> which is growth hormone for dairy cows which is absorbed by humans through milk.
> The reporters decided to blow the whistle on FOX News and filed a law suit.
> After the ordeal was over, it was discovered in the appeals court that it's
> actually not against the law to falsify the "News."

http://behavioralhealth.typepad.com/markhams_behavioral_healt/food_and_drink/

> a pay-per-month model of getting access to a DRM-free library does sound good

Q: So, how much is that?

A: It's basically infinity dollars.

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/05/20090515.jpg

Back in University, I had a friend doing Civil Engineering.

He had a clip from the yellow pages on his dorm room door. It read:

"Civil Engineering: See - BORING."

Here are a couple of good opt-outs for the UK:

Telephone Preference Service - no more junk phone calls.
http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/

Mail preference service - no more junk mail (snailmail).
http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/

Anyone got any more?

Ever seen 'Survivors' (1975) ?

Here's the opening sequence, depicting the accident with the bottle, and the subsequent rapid spread of the disease.

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

> The soul of juggling is passing objects between two or more jugglers (I humbly assert).

Absolutely yes, amongst the juggling population in my vicinity this seems to be generally regarded as the ultimate expression of the art.

Some jugglers like 4 count with tricks best, but there's a notable resurgence of interest in passing with both hands - 3 count and other such patterns.

Nice to hear from another juggler here on Slashdot. :)