June 2011
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Good Morning Moon | Marian Call →
Preview single from Marian’s upcoming album ‘Something Fierce!’ Written for waking up astronauts as well as sleepy terrestrials.
If you like space, Marian Call, or uplifting songs, you must listen to this. Really.
See-No-Evil Monkey
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The three wise monkeys embody the proverbial principle to “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”. The three monkeys are Mizaru, covering his eyes, who sees no evil; Kikazaru, covering his ears, who hears no evil; and Iwazaru, covering his mouth, who speaks no evil. - Wikipedia
He’s not making this up, really! See, you can type them all in a row: 🙈🙉🙊 If you only see...
code point: Undo Symbol →
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Behavioral Issues in the Use of Interactive Systems, a 1976 research report by Lance A. Miller and John C. Thomas of IBM, noted that “It would be quite useful to permit users to ‘take back’ at least the immediately preceding command (by issuing some special ‘undo’ command).” The programmers…
Great idea, terrible symbol. “It’s just a jump to left…”
tumblrbot asked: WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?
Tumblr Comments/Replies
gtmcknight:
My big complaint about having Tumblr replies turned on is that my friends will leave insightful comments or questions and there is no way to reply (unless I reblog, which is always way more emphasis than an answer warrants). It happens every week, just know I’m not ignoring you…
I’ve been on both ends of this, and I agree it’s frustrating. Tumblr doesn’t do true...
Arabic-Indic Cube Root
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The Arabic-Indic or Eastern Arabic numerals used with the Arabic alphabet developed primarily in what is now Iraq. The cube roots of a number x are the numbers y which satisfy the equation y3 = x. - Wikipedia
Looks a little like Klingon battle insignia, too.
