We welcome our SkyNet Overlords!!!

I second this. Make up a QR code with embedded information about the title of the book, who you lent it to, and when. Print up a sticker and affix it to the spine of the book. You can also place a traditional Ex Libris sticker on the inside cover. Then, when you see the book in your ex-friend's library, you can scan the QR code with any smartphone camera.

Ominous.

I've been using JS Pager Virtual Desktop since the 1990's. It's a lightweight app which leverages existing windows capabilities to provide multiple "panes" in a grid. There's no support, but it has been working through multiple versions of Windows from 98 through 7.

The next step is direct cochlear implantation, bypassing the mechanical subsystems for truly dynamic fidelity. A fortunate byproduct would be hearing implants for the deaf.

1) ! (K&R braces) // 'nuff said
2) when formatting expressions, put multiple spaces in parens () - depending on nesting level
ie. if ( ( exp1 || (exp2 & something) ) && (something-else) )
3) about variable names - no hungarian notation, please. If the type of the variable is not apparent from context, I can da*m well look up the definition, thank you.
A roommate of mine was working on a big project for a major telecommunications company, in a variation of Pascal. Their standard was to encode everything into the variable name - scope, persistance, type, and finally some sort of actual name. The names tended to be over 80 chars in length - making it impossible to simply scan the code. I heard they spent a lot of time in code reviews. I'm suprised they actually got the system to work.