| Pink flamingos, of the plastic kitsch lawn-decoration kind and not the real live item, are the official bird of the city of Madison, Wisconsin; the plastic lawn ornament was so designated in response to a lighthearted prank in 1979 wherein students covered the University of Wisconsin’s Bascom Hill with over one thousand of them. | |
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| Today's Tech Term
Pop-Under | |
| A Pop-Under is an independent window that will appear beneath/behind the current browser window. Most of the time these Pop-Unders are ads, but on occasion they do contain other content. | |
| What We're Reading from Around the Web | |
| | Airplane mode disables a device’s cellular radio, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth — the wireless transmission functions. But many airplanes now offer in-flight Wi-Fi, and cellular access may be coming to planes soon — so where does that leave airplane mode? | |
| | The big cloud storage services — Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and others — all have the same problem. They can only synchronize folders inside your cloud storage folder. But there’s a way around this limitation: symbolic links. | |
| | Use the drivers Windows provides and you won’t have to worry about bloatware. If you do have to install the drivers provided by your manufacturer, here’s how to avoid all the heavy control panels and startup applications they include. | |
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