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7 things I did not know last week

A week on a calendar
  1. Another expression for buttock cleavage is 'Dagenham smile'. Via kottke.org.
  2. Before the 19th century picnics were held indoors.
  3. Sundays between Ash Wednesday and Easter are not part of Lent.
  4. 'In the past, children in deaf schools did not have personal name signs, but were given numbers'. Via The Linguistics of British Sign Language, page 235.
  5. 'If you own a PC running Vista or a Mac with OS/X installed then you could already be using IPv6.' Via BBC News.
  6. Google Docs lets you easily email a form to people who fill it in and the entries are automatically saved into a master spreadsheet.
  7. I can use my mobile phone (a TYTN II) as a wi-fi access point: I installed WMWifiRouter and then went online with an iPod Touch using my mobile's wi-fi signal.

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