bitful

1. Firefox offers no option to temporarily disable Flash, but you can do that with add-ons (Adblock or Flashblock).
2. The BBC's definition of 'licence fee payer' includes not only licence holders, but also 'any other person in the UK who watches, listens to or uses any BBC service, or may do so or wish to do so in the future' (via ia play).
3. Twitter tips may be contextual after all. Just too many coincidences between the content of the updates and the tips added by Twitter, like 'bitful is waiting for the tube home but wishing to be beamed there instead' - Twitter suggests 'Go for a long walk'.
4. 'Unlike paper and plastic, steel can be melted down and recast indefinitely; it has no structural memory' (via kottke.org).
5. Irish has no words for "yes" and "no". The answer to a question contains a repetition of the verb, either with or without a negative particle.
6. The widespread practice to wrap a website's logo in a h1 tag may not improve accessibility as much as expected. Some advocate a better use of h1 to mark the main topic of the page, rather than wasting it on an element that is obvious and consistent throughout a website. Some suggest wrapping logo/name and tagline as td and tt in a dl instead.
7. 'The coffee you grab on the way to work may contain up to a fifth of your daily recommended calories'.

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