Cougarton Abbey was actually the work of the Royal Haggerston Wireless Company.

This one got a post on Language Log:

'Hello, my name is Mr. Burns. I believe you have a letter for me.'

Holy crap, I used to think I was good at Tetris. I think my record was 210 lines on the original Gameboy version.

That's what most of the gesture-in-the-air stuff on recent Galaxy phones was about. The CEO was getting through like five screens a day.

I misread that as COME AT ME, ART BRUT, like you were calling out the entire outsider art movement for a fight.

Rollin' (Nautical Entertainment Vehicle)

Upvoted primarily for the Notorious L.I.N.C.O.L.N. avatar.

You got serves!

So when can I expect Benedict Cumberbatch as Clippy?

*picture password ignition fails*

Long may it whip the llama's ass.

Yeah, I wouldn't have either - previous versions sucked in a focused and consistent way. But not being able to install non-work programs like Winamp meant I was lumbered with WMP 12, and it… didn't suck.

It does say 'Uninstall' rather than 'Delete' when you right-click it.

It's in Copy of Copy of Copy of New Folder.

8.1.1 fixes most of that stuff (sounds like you're still on 8 somehow). That's the 'third version' that just about works; MS products often don't get useful until the third go round (Surface, Windows Phone).

http://lifehacker.com/how-t…

The improvements to the file explorer and the Task Manager are nice in a 'why didn't they do that before?' kind of way. There's a decent admin menu when you right-click the Start button too.

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Tonkatsu no AKUMA

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