I bet that most people type with both thumbs in landscape mode.

Ars Technica made a video comparing animated transitions in iOS 6 and iOS 7 side by side. The animations in iOS 7 do take longer than those in iOS 6, making the user experience more sluggish.

Direct link to video.
Link to article with the video in it

There has previously been a theory that these mass reoccurring extinctions would have been created by the near passing of a hypothetical star that we would have been unable to detect because it would be on the other side of the Oort cloud.
I suppose that this new finding will debunk that theory for good.

The hypothetical star had been named Nemesis. I know of it only because I ready about it in a novel by Asimov recently.

I would not be surprised if someone would have broken it within mere hours after they have become available.

How long does it take to etch a PCB (mould) and how long does it take for gelatine to cool down (finger cast)? (The method that Mythbusters used)

There is already a classic vintage game called Parallax.
It has lasting fame for having given name to the video game technique Parallax scrolling.

The game's soundtrack by Martin Galway is also a classic, with many covers/remixes made by video game music enthusiasts.

Mammoth-type animals have actually appeared and gone extinct not once, but at about once every ice-age cycle.
That blew my mind when I heard it the first time.

That the last type the mammoths would have gone extinct because of climate change does not seem very far-fetched then, now does it.

The codec directory was an idea that I think they got from AmigaOS' "Datatypes" mechanism.
I remember that Amiga was the first platform where all* web browsers would support PNG, because someone had written a PNG datatype and released it as free software.

*: Yeah, yeah, Lynx did not technically view images, but it could download an image and launch an external image viewer ... which would usually support datatypes.

I think that what a smartwatch needs to be is as a "companion device" to a phone, and nothing more.
It needs a screen, two buttons (or areas to tap) for "Yes" and "No" and low-bandwidth communication with the phone. The phone tells the watch what to display and what the buttons mean. The watch then needs only to reply with "Message understood, displaying screen", "Yes" and "No". That's it.
All the "killer apps" that a smartwatch could be used for require those things and nothing more.

The Samsung watch and many stand-alone smartwatches are too powerful, too feature-rich and already too bloated. The Samsung watch is already too large to wear comfortably on the wrist. Has anyone mentioned battery life yet? My Casio has a battery life measured in years.

... and in Bob Kane's original Batman comics, first printed in Detective Comics #31 in 1939, Batman did not use a "batplate" or a "batcopter". He used a "batgyro". The first "batarang" was introduced in the same panel.

Precisely. Isn't this the real issue here that the trademark "Ministry of Sound" is being used for playlists on Spotify.

That shortcut opens a new Incognito window in Chrome, also called "Private browsing" in Firefox.

Also very useful. Incognito windows lets me can log into my gmail account without having to log out of Youtube ... and when the incognito windows are closed, I am automatically logged out of gmail.

... but the router I got from them does.

It is a standard Ethernet router. No malice here. It is just crappy, and I am too cheap and lazy to buy a new one. I don't do anything where I would need over 40 Mb/s anyway.

I agree with most of your points, but it is a bit late now...

If I had been Microsoft, I would have leveraged the "Metro" name instead: Windows Phone -> Metro Phone, Windows RT -> Metro Tablet, but let full-featured (x86) tablets remain Windows tablets.
Then, instead of letting the desktop be an "app", expand on the tiling windows of Windows 7 and place Metro apps in tiled windows on the desktop. Also, add multiple workspaces to Windows desktop -- it is about effing time.