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'Bulletproof' hosting and domain services resist takedowns. Irondns.is comes to mind.

Specifically it is the frequency-based keyboard layout of traditional hot-metal Linotype machines. If you made a typo, the custom was to fill up the spoiled slug by running your finger down the etaoin shrdlu rows, and start fresh on the next slug. On rare occasions the layout clerk would accidentally let a shrdlu slug go to press, to the amusement of the readership.

Telegraph operators ranked the letters as etaonrish.

Writhing tentacles in your computer's recycle bin (mac/win). Approved by Cthulhu.

Apparently there's enough capitalism for mining colonies and merchant traders. "No!! If you shut down the mine we'll go bankrupt!!"

Unfortunately the 1970s ST animated series gave us the 'trapped in the holodeck' story format. The TNG writers leaned a little too heavily on it.

Superpolynomial subexponential runtimes. / Even though in practice it would take you several lifetimes, / If you ran it long enough you'd always find those two primes. / Superpolynomial subexponential runtimes -- Eric Hughes (2000)

As they said in "Yes, Minister": "under consideration" means we've lost the file; "under active consideration" means we're trying to find it.

In a series of lectures in 1938, tv inventor Philo Farnsworth explained the need to develop "the tools to make the tools to make the tools" to make high tech stuff. He originated the phrase.

FWIW, Rare Disease Day is celebrated on Feb. 29.

In 2019 an injured siberian tiger came to a russian border post and refused to leave until he was taken to a rehab facility.