And now Safari has blended the location and search fields into one. Makes sense to both young and old.

The mini is great for checking email, keeping up with the news, researching nearby attractions, restaurants, making reservations. Ultra-portable and not so valuable that one gets overly stressed out about losing it. Plus it is great for running a sound board while walking around the stage! http://www.yamahaproaudio.com/... I also find that the mini is comfortable to read from for long periods, and nice to hand around to people to show off a discovered web page without worrying they'll accidentally drop it.

"To thine own self be true". If, for example only, you were to say nasty things about a friend of yours to someone else, and that friend never found out, wouldn't you still be a bad person for doing so? The logic is identical, except that the "friend" is a horse. Or a rock, I suppose. I'd give you a pass on gossiping about a rock. Plus, horses are shiny.

I didn't see the previous mention of the article buried in a longish paragraph. But *I* don't have mod points today (wish I had). The story is so compelling it is worthy of repeating the reference.

http://www.traynorseye.com/2012/09/meeting-troll.html

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Two days later I opened my front door and there was a bunch of dead flowers with my wife's old Twitter username on it. Then that night I recieved a DM. 'You'll get home some day & ur b**ches throat will be cut & ur son will be gone.'

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I put my hand on his shoulder and asked him "Why?" The Troll sat there for a moment and said "I don't know. I don't know. I'm sorry. It was like a game thing."

He's gotta be around there somewhere...

please tell me you are not serious.

Yes, "Andre" Norton really does the "Hero's Journey" kind of story really well. Kids (and old kids) love that.

This was got me hooked back in the day (plus the Heinlein juves): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Flight_to_the_Mushroom_Planet Part of "The Mushroom Planet Books". These are easy to follow without being condescending. And anyone who isn't captivated by the idea that youngsters could build their own functional rocket ship isn't awake.

+1 Growing up these were my favorites.

"Inappropriate" in this case can easily be seen to mean "not appropriate/relevant to researching the statistics on sex". Religion bashing is uncalled for in this case.

My favorite version of this is Robert A. Heinlein's "Double Star", where the not-very-admirable protagonist impersonates an ailing admired world leader, and successfully transforms himself into that admired world leader upon the leader's passing (hey, it *is* fiction).