Carrot History - Origins and Development:

It is said (with no documentary evidence) that the cultivated and edible carrot dates back about 5,000 years ago when the purple root was found to be growing in the area now known as Afghanistan.

Akhlaq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Akhlaq (Arabic: أخلاق‎) is an Arabic term referring to the practice of virtue, morality and manners in Islamic theology and falsafah (philosophy). It is most commonly translated in English dictionaries as; disposition, nature, temper, ethics, morals or character (of a person).

Stardock Fences: organize your icons into floating areas on your desktop | freewaregenius.com:

Fences is a free windows enhancement that allows you to create folder-like, semitransparent groups that float on the desktop and allow you to organize your desktop icons within them. It also offers the option to hide all or some of your desktop icons by double clicking on an empty area.

By now, however, I'm not sure I need it as much, I've already taught myself to just deal with it...

Sure I already finished this multiple times on the GameCube, but I loved the controller setup on Metroid Prime 3 so much, I'd love to play this again in full HD, wide screen, with updated controls... I loves me some Metroid

The White House - Blog Post - Relief for Gaza:

By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (the "Act"), as amended (22 U.S.C. 2601), I hereby determine, pursuant to section 2(c)(1) of the Act, that it is important to the national interest to furnish assistance under the Act in an amount not to exceed $20.3 million from the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for the purpose of meeting unexpected and urgent refugee and migration needs, including by contributions to international, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations and payment of administrative expenses of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration of the Department of State, related to humanitarian needs of Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.

Though even as little as 10 times this much is still a fraction of what goes to Israel and Egypt to keep the Gazans down, and greatly improves the lives of the people of Gaza to the point that they'll no longer support violent means of political change. $20.3 million, however, will barely make a dent and isn't even as much as has been reported that Hamas has put up. Perhaps it's time to go back to the methods of the cold war, less actual war, more competition to out-spend the oppenent...

Religion:

Istiqamah is an important concept of Islam. It has several meanings. It means to be straight, to follow the straight path, to remain firm on one’s principles and not to give up under difficulties or challenges. Some scholars say that it also means to be sincere and do good things in public as well in private life. Some others say that it means to be straight in words as well in deeds. (see Nadrat al-Na’im, vol. 2, p. 304)

Vim documentation: usr_25:

REFORMATTING

The Vim editor is not a word processor.  In a word processor, if you delete
something at the beginning of the paragraph, the line breaks are reworked.  In
Vim they are not; so if you delete the word "programming" from the first line,
all you get is a short line:

		 1	   2	     3
	12345678901234567890123456789012345
	I taught for a 
	while. One time, I was stopped 
	by the Fort Worth police, 
	because my homework was too 
	hard. True story. 

This does not look good.  To get the paragraph into shape you use the "gq"
operator.
   Let's first use this with a Visual selection.  Starting from the first
line, type:

	v4jgq

"v" to start Visual mode, "4j' to move to the end of the paragraph and then
the "gq" operator.  The result is:

		 1	   2	     3
	12345678901234567890123456789012345
	I taught for a while. One 
	time, I was stopped by the 
	Fort Worth police, because my 
	homework was too hard. True 
	story. 

Note: there is a way to do automatic formatting for specific types of text
layouts, see |auto-format|.

Since "gq" is an operator, you can use one of the three ways to select the
text it works on: With Visual mode, with a movement and with a text object.
   The example above could also be done with "gq4j".  That's less typing, but
you have to know the line count.  A more useful motion command is "}".  This
moves to the end of a paragraph.  Thus "gq}" formats from the cursor to the
end of the current paragraph.
   A very useful text object to use with "gq" is the paragraph.  Try this:

	gqap

"ap" stands for "a-paragraph".  This formats the text of one paragraph
(separated by empty lines).  Also the part before the cursor.
   If you have your paragraphs separated by empty lines, you can format the
whole file by typing this:

	gggqG

"gg" to move to the first line, "gqG" to format until the last line.
   Warning: If your paragraphs are not properly separated, they will be joined
together.  A common mistake is to have a line with a space or Tab.  That's a
blank line, but not an empty line.

Vim is able format more than just plain text.  See |fo-table| for how to
change this.  See the 'joinspaces' option to change the number of spaces used
after a full stop.
   It is possible to use an external program for formatting.  This is useful
if your text can't be properly formatted with Vim's builtin command.  See the
'formatprg' option.

Here is an interesting clip, posted by Aly with ultimate props to Adrian, of a "strange" new way to get your news:

Sure it's fun to see these old clips knowing what we know now, but what does this clip tell me? It tells me that only Mr Halloran has his "Home Computer" set up ergonomically. The newspaper computers are all 1 piece jobs with keyboard attached to monitor, and as a result they are all hunched over them in a back-breaking posture:

Also, it's clear, that 28 years ago we slaughtered whole forests for our paper needs. Seriously, the reduction of paper in our lives happened so gradually that frequently I think we still use so much paper, it takes a video like this to remind us of the mounds of paper that we used to bury ourselves under.

Also so very interesting is what hasn't changed:

• We still have a fascination with putting tons of workers in one big fat room and expecting them all to be productive. I know in these clips the news room is still setup in a "secretarial pool" style, and not a more moder "cubicle hell" style, but still it's efficient use of space with no regard for how people actually get work done.
• The "less than fashionable cubby hole" could have the old PCs removed and replaced with new iMacs and you'd think it was from today. Even the geeks still dress the same.
• Mr Halloran's outfit wouldn't even get a 2nd notice today. I guess wealthy San Franciscans can wear 28 year old suits and be fine.
• "We're not in it to make money", still true today, newspapers don't know how to make money. Zing!
• The advertisement's newspaper headline reads: "More arms spending". Now that's depressing...
• We still drink coffee!
  

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If so, any good?