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Technology: Keeping straight from down below: if that doesn't make you think of a spring and well I don't know what could. Well source maybe; for as it turns out Latin from below ( sub- ) and to keep straight ( regere ) are via surgere (to rise) and the French sourdre (with the same meaning) the probable sources of the word source itself. That out of the way let's turn to the springs and fountains of the ema...

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Technology: A year alas is not a day. The earth's 365 and a tad shy of a quarter rotations around itself while rotating around the sun just once fit division by 60 or 24 — which would divide by 2 3 4 and in the former case 5 so neatly — only with odd rests of natural days remaining. Edouard Vitrant still has concocted a somewhat sexagesimal calendar with six months of sixty days per year and five...

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Technology: Snowflakes do not cling when it's cool and dry. Let the temperature rise a bit above freezing though and the flakes get all worked up sweaty and bonding. The thin film of water acts like a glue and the wet snow is ripe for building a glorious snowman or two: �� Snowmen wear hearts this year! (Windows Mail Windows Live Mail Outlook Outlook Express) Snow Hearts - Free Email Stationery Download and...

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Technology: About once every 17 years the month Ulûlu in the Babylonian summer was followed by — the month Ulûlu. This together with more frequent duplications of the month Addaru was necessary to get the lunar and solar cycles in sync for the spring planting season. Now you're not likely to come across two months of Ulûlu or one in email headers but who knows? �� Want to know when (and...

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Technology: Looking for a particular set of emails? Sparrow now helps you search with sender auto-completion and smart search operators. Looking to send files with verve and little concern for size? In addition to CloudApp Sparrow 1.5 supports Dropbox for drag-and-drop document sharing. Looking at images in emails wondering what they will reveal about you? Sparrow now lets you disable automatic downloading o...

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Technology: A lady of leisure and elderly too. She goes through postcards for an hour or two. Thirty minutes later I guess she's also found her friend's address. When the card is written she ponders again: should I take an umbrella? Will it rain? For the postbox is two streets away and a shower promised for the day. The lady has spent an entire day sending the postcard; a busy person would have done it in pe...

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Technology: A la saint Thomas commands the old French song cuit ton pain lave tes draps: on Saint Thomas 's day — historically December 21 st — bake your bread and make your bed. Christmas in France has always been a time for housecleaning and all the repair work to which Advent's long evenings lend themselves so enticingly. Looking for a diversion and break from the cleaning? How about enticing...

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Technology: Wheat on a field in the U.K: year after year Ronald Aylmer Fisher watches it grow until in 1876 the field's yield suddenly drops. Fisher now watches more closely one imagines until in 1880 the field yields even less. It's 1894 now. Fisher is still observing and he records a sudden surge in production. The good streak continues until 1901 when for no obvious reason yields drop again. Like any good...

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Technology: Free-flow flagging's flexible but does it work with your IMAP account? Opera now lets you pin messages in addition to labeling and the pinning synchronizes with the IMAP flag — and Opera or another email program elsewhere. Opera 11.60 also brings an improved side-by-side wide-screen view and groups messages by date (today yesterday last week earlier this month etc.) read status or yes that...

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Technology: For 48 years a native of the old city of Speyer eyes dancing vividly behind the oval glasses that so befit the friendly round face filled the ether with a sonorous voice — and music! It must have been in one of these Adventures in Good Music shows that Karl Haas recounted a violinist and his confectioner friend's nutritious joke: the last piece in the concert that called for muted sound fro...