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| TV Review: 'Mad Men': How'd those books get to '63? (Entertainment Weekly) Fans of AMC’s Mad Men know that the set decorators are usually slavishly faithful to the look and style of the early ’60s. But Sunday’s episode contained a glaring (and uncharacteristic) anachronism, as my friend, the lexicographer Ben Zimmer, noted yesterday on his Word Routes blog . Can you find it in the picture at left? us.rd.yahoo.com |
Prototype security software blocks DDoS attacks (Computerworld) Network World - Researchers have come up with host-based security software that blocks distributed denial-of-service attacks without swamping the memory and CPU of the host machines.The filtering, called identity-based privacy-protected access control (IPCAF), can also prevent session hijacking , dictionary attacks and man-in-the-middle attacks, say researchers at Auburn University in their ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
The Royal Opera: The Tsarina's Slippers (Evening Standard) The precise footwear favoured by the tsarina in Tchaikovsky’s only comic opera, Cherevichki, is no straightforward matter. Cherevichki are high-heeled, narrow-toed women’s holiday boots, according to the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, but as a title that doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue. us.rd.yahoo.com |
All-Area cross country: Northwest Guilford runner one of best ever (Greensboro News & Record) Only a coach's dictionary would match Chelsea Hollingsorth's definition of "a few." Get a few miles in this weekend, Northwest Guilford cross country coach Paul Egleston would tell his star runner, finding out on Monday that she took that to mean 20. read more us.rd.yahoo.com |
California school district ends dictionary ban (AP via Yahoo! News) A California school district that pulled a dictionary from classrooms because it defined oral sex will allow it back on the shelves. us.rd.yahoo.com |