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7 things I did not know last week

A week on a calendar
  1. The iPhone (and many other high-end phones) have a water damage sensor: a small white disc inside the headphone jack that gets coloured when in contact with water. [via garoo]
  2. The Sound of Music is based on a true story (with alterations and omissions).
  3. TV Genius (the TV listings and reminders website I use regularly) has launched a TV Genius Facebook application. You tell it what you are interested in and TV Genius builds your personal listings schedule on Facebook too. And so all my data tightens up even more.
  4. Peer to peer positioning is a faux-GPS hack that determines your location using GPS data linked to telecom towers.
  5. The design of the HMS Camden Lock (the main ship in Hyperdrive) was inspired by the Telecom Tower.
  6. When you import your bookmarks from Firefox into Delicious, they are automatically tagged with 'imported' and with the folder name they are in.
  7. The Englishman in New York in Sting's Englishman in New York is Quentin Crisp.

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