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        People frequently ask me why I picked such a title; and in fact some people apparently don't believe that I really did so, since I've seen at least one bibliographic reference to some books called "The Act of Computer Programming."

        In this talk I shall try to explain why I think "Art" is the appropriate word. I will discuss what it means for something to be an art, in contrast to being a science; I will try to examine whether arts are good things or bad things; and I will try to show that a proper viewpoint of the subject will help us all to improve the quality of what we are now doing.

        One of the first times I was ever asked about the title of my books was in 1966, during the last previous ACM national meeting held in Southern California. This was before any of the books were published, and I recall having lunch with a friend at the convention hotel. He knew how conceited I was, already at that time, so he asked if I was going to call my books "An Introduction to Don Knuth." I replied that, on tile contrary, I was naming the books after him. His name: Art Evans. (The Art of Computer Programming, in person.)

        --via Preface of "Literate Programming" citing Knuth's Turing Award speech in 1974

This will take care of your first two suggestions:

Right click on page; From pop-up menu choose Web Developer -> CSS -> Disable Styles -> Disable All Styles.

(YMMV may vary depending on your browser and your installed extensions.)

An alternative is to edit their CSS to address the first three of your points.

My point is: there are plenty of tools you can use to make web pages appear how you would like them to appear, such as: browser extensions; custom style sheets (e.g., Firefox's userContent.css); and GreaseMonkey.

Is the possessive apostrophe particularly expensive these days?

"...told Bloomberg that Apple next iPhone models will come with..." and "...would be Apple largest iPhones."

Why not "Apple's next iPhone" and "Apple's largest iPhones?" Because as girlintraining posted elsewhere,

Judging by the time I spend on-hold with their phone support, one would think the call is being routed via Mars!

Dice doesn't have dedicated editors anymore.

You have to duplicate your flag in order for the dupe to be considered a dupe.

Oh, c'mon! You're pulling my leg, right?

We'll have to wait until the robot that detects duplicate posts about duplicate stories is completed.

Since Rock-Paper-Scissors dates back to the time of the Chinese Han Dynasty, the Japanese built this in order to diplomatically resolve the dispute with China over the Senkaku Islands.

Actually: in Japan, there's a "strip-poker" variant of rock-paper-scissors. The loser of each round removes an article of clothing. The game is a minor part of porn culture in Japan.

Once again, porn drives innovation!

I wonder if this Telsa product will go up in flames?

The fine article links to only one of the patent applications. There are actually two (with lots of figures):

20120097086 FLEET PROTECTION ATTACK CRAFT AND UNDERWATER VEHICLES (39 figures) and

20110226173 FLEET PROTECTION ATTACK CRAFT (36 figures)

Each product with this coating will have this warning prominently displayed:

WARNING: DO NOT PLACE NEAR MOTHBALLS

Or Sony could moth-ball it.

Before Sony can commercially produce this, they have to overcome one hurdle: how to stop a device with this coating from gravitating to bright lights!

I'll see your Wikipedia reference and raise you two USPTO patents granted to SONY for this:

8,027,090 and 7,633,045.

Note: according to another of SONY's patents, moth-eye can also be used to record info on optical media:

"Today, there are seven primary methods by which information can be recorded on optical media. All methods heat the recording layer to a certain temperature. The methods are known as ablative, alloying, bubble-forming, moth-eye, phase-change, dye/polymer and magneto-optic which cause or could cause some mechanical deformation of the substrate."

P.S.

Unlike TFA these patents include detailed drawings and SEM photographs.

P.S.S.

I remember when the authors of tech articles did this kind of background research. Sigh.