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Comment Re:Sesame Street & the Importance of Bilingual (Score 1) 1077

... notes that 'Linus Torvalds, a Finn, comments his code in English (it apparently never occurred to him to do otherwise).

Just a little factual correction - it is true that Linus was born in Finland, but he was born in the Swedish family and his first language was Swedish. No doubt he also speaks Finnish, though.

Comment No surprise (Score 1) 597

As a former Soviet Union citizen I can confirm that map blurring has been considered a major secret weapon in the fight for World Revolution. Typically, the tourist city plans were next to unusable, filtered through multiple blur layers. This news snip only reinforces my doubts about the two "united" states behaving in remarkably similar fashion.
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Lost Phone Found Inside Cod 6

Andrew Cheatle thought his phone would be lost to the sea forever, but a week later a fisherman found it inside a 25lb cod. He was shopping for a new one with his girlfriend when her phone went off. It was the fisherman explaining what he found. "I thought he was winding me up but he assured me he had caught a cod that morning and was gutting it for his fish stall and that my Nokia was inside it -- a bit worse for wear. I didn't believe him but went to meet him and found it was my phone -- a bit smelly and battered -- but incredibly it still worked after I let it dry out," Andrew said. I think we know what the new Nokia advertising campaign should be.

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