Versatile? I’d say “useless”, except as an interesting trick.

I came to the comments to say exactly this. It is much quicker (and easier to remember) to just twist the cord into a natural circle as you coil it. I also don’t recall being taught this, just figured it out from necessity as a musician.

Sailor name: alternating half-hitch coil.

Works for me via Firefox. I am signed into Google on firefox using the same account as my phone. And it gave me an error when my phone was off. This is real time only.

Yeah, I’m rather surprised by how many news outlets showed the full photo above the fold. Not cool. But, in an era where we are showing videos of cops shooting people (also not cool, above the fold) it is not surprising.

Thanks. So using Sync means I'm using my computer and devices as always on file servers, and while it is "fast" it isn't actually faster than my asynchronous DSL upload connection unless my other devices have other connections to ht net or other people *already* have the file to take advantage of peer swarming.

I'm not getting how bit torrent is appropriate for this application.

I hope those are clean balls not used, dirty balls. Dirty balls are disgusting, especially all over your kitchen. :-0

Ahem, that memo you asked about? If one is Christian it's called the Bible. And it is antigay in a number of places.

For bad responses it is hard to beat the blog post by biologist and Social Justice Warrior PZ Myers:

Pedant Fight!!!

"Placebo" effects take many forms and can be quite potent healing agents."

"1. Placebos can work even if you know they are placebos."

"When I looked up Reiki on the web, I was a little shocked how much skepticism there is as to its effectiveness. There doesn't seem to be any solid scientific support for the practice which makes me wonder if I'm throwing my money away on a placebo."