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| Notice: GeekPress is back up and running, thanks to Paul! It's still a not-so-serious tech news blog, but the format is significantly looser. Diana, having given up programming for philosophy, has her own philosophical blog NoodleFood. More of her work can be found at DianaHsieh.com. |
| How to fake being an IT expert |
| 9:05:44 am mst / 13 January 2001 found by paul / filed in humor / source Low Pass 264 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Useful tips for bluffing your way into IT guru status. (Link from Fark.) |
| I like their recommendations on making up fake acronyms: "V, M, D, X and I, are all solid letters when describing something that would be classified as hardware. If you're talking about the Internet or a programming language liberally add the letters L, R, T and P into the mix." |
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| Making Teflon Stick |
| 1:29:37 pm mst / 13 January 2001 found by paul / filed in inventions / source American Heritage 129 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| An interesting article on the history of Teflon, from its accidental discovery, to the first military uses, and the innovative French entrepreneur who brought it to the consumer market. |
| The article also answers the old chesnut, "How do they make nonstick Teflon stick to the frying pan?" |
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