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Just spotted a really useful clipboard feature in the text editor I use.

I supports: Cut, Copy, Paste, and Swap.

Swap the highlighted text with the clipboard text. Genius!

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What would Richard Feynman do?

“You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I came in through the parking lot. And you won’t believe what happened. I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing…”

“The gravitational force is weak,” he said at one conference, introducing his work on quantizing gravity. “In fact, it’s *damned* weak.” At that instant a loudspeaker demonically broke loose from the ceiling and crashed to the floor. Feynman barely hesitated: “Weak — but not negligible.”

Seen at Bad Science.

The two biographies about him are great. Essentially a series of anecdotes about him, told by one his mates.

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The XO is the "lowest power laptop ever made, its the greenest laptop ever-made, it's the only sunlight readable laptop on the market, it's more rugged than a Toughbook, it's in the Museum of Modern Art for it's look ... 15 times lower [in power consumption] than any other laptop on the market. The Mesh networking extends the reach of a single access point as the wifi signals can hop from laptop to laptop to reach the children living the farthest from the school. ... we can run off of solar during the day and handcrank at night for an additional $25 or so per student – this is one-time expense – the solar panel and the crank will last 10 or perhaps 20 years. ... The XO batteries last for 5 years and cost less than $10 to replace. Finally, the XO is the greenest laptop ever made.

From Groklaw's interview with the founding Chief Technology Officer of One Laptop Per Child project.

This thing sounds seriously nifty. I hope they do the Give One, Get One scheme in Europe at some point.