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2.spawn
In multiplayer games, the place where a dead person or a person that has just joined is born or created.
4. Spawn
(n.) - Children, particularly annoying ones. SEE: Crotch-droppings.
[I]Lady, please remove your spawn from the middle of the street before something fortunate for the rest of humanity occurs.[/I]
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[QUOTE=ewmayer;347150][SNIP]

The closest Americanism I can think of analogous to sprog is "rugrat", but that applies only to very young [i.e. crawling] children.[/QUOTE]

"Curtain climbers", "ankle biters". My take on "rugrat" is that it can include toddlers. Fascinating subject, isn't it: derogatory terms for the very young. Not all deserve it, but those who do make up for the others. Of course, it is really a failing of the parents, so the "locked in a room full of screaming sprogs" punishment sounds quite fitting.

[url]http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-07/mit-computer-could-make-internet-thats-three-times-fast[/url]
This would be nice...

[url]http://news.yahoo.com/mysterious-giant-magnet-attracts-rock-star-status-194725326.html[/url]

Apparently, my home town is the third fattest metropolitan area in the US.(Conway, Arkansas)

Guess I fit right in.

What scientists are seeing over Antarctica
 

Fascinating and scary. Sea level rise, anyone?
[YOUTUBE]anfbjiShjP8[/YOUTUBE]

Microsoft accuses Microsoft of copyright infringement
 

[B][SIZE=2]Microsoft accuses Microsoft of copyright infringement, asks Google to scrub search links[/SIZE][/B]

[URL="https://www.eff.org/mention/microsoft-accuses-microsoft-copyright-infringement-asks-google-scrub-search-links"]Link[/URL] at Electronic Frontier Foundation.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;347896]Thx - I find the [URL="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2045486/microsoft-accuses-microsoft-of-copyright-infringement-asks-google-to-scrub-search-links.html"]original PC World article[/URL] (linked in the above EFF page) more useful.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the referral. I thought the blurb was pretty short, but did not pursue the link. :no:

I have no idea why this video seems so awesome to me.

Also, I'm amazed there are no homophobic slurs in the comments that I can see, despite the visual definition of "working it."

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmxUMcqGGTw[/url]

Xerox scanners/copiers randomly alter written numbers.
 

[url]http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning?[/url]

Never simply assume, always check.

[QUOTE=retina;348258][URL]http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning?[/URL]

Never simply assume, always check.[/QUOTE]

Chester F. Carlson would NOT have been pleased with this situation.