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- Horses can mate with zebras. A zorse is the offspring of a zebra stallion and a horse mare; the rarer reverse pairing is sometimes called a hebra. I am not making this up. A hebra was recently born in Berlin. Wait, no, that's a zorse. Whatever.
- Britons eat one-third of all the cod consumed in the world.
- You can insert a line break within a cell in an Excel spreadsheet by hitting Alt-Enter, as return by itself would simply enter the values and move to the cell below. Via a colleague at work.
- Yak shaving as described in Wikipedia is 'a neologism which describes the act of performing seemingly unrelated and often annoying tasks which stand in the way of an ultimate goal [...] Yaks are large, Asian bovines that have long, thick fur that would presumably be quite a challenge to shear'.
- Copyleft is the practice of distributing free copies of a work for others to use and modify, as long as the modified versions maintain the same freedoms. The GNU General Public License (GPL), and Creative Commons 'Share-alike' licenses are examples of copyleft.
- Human-like robots inspire empathy up to a certain point, in which they are made so similar to humans that they freak us out. The phenomenon is called the Uncanny Valley and explains for instance why we accept highly stylised characters like The Simpsons easily, but find those in Final Fantasy for example a bit creepy and 'too human'.
- Shoes hanging on a Wire is usually a sign that a dealer lives nearby, or that drugs are available for purchase in the vicinity.
Monday 9 July 2007 at 2:06 pm
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