News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon by 10ren on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @03:24AM (#521341)
"At over 100,000ft the balloon lost its inflation" wonderful euphemism.

Oblig. Hack: Quite often I want to refer back to a particular phrase or word in a book, and I have a devil of a time finding it. At times I've methodically re-read 10 or 20 pages in failing to find it. I've wished I could just google the damn book.

I can. By using Google Books or Amazon's search facility. I mention this here, because I wanted to use an expression of Gladwell's in Outliers, about someone "customizing their environment", and then saying " "customize" -- using Lareau's wonderful term" on page 105. I'd misremembered it as "lovely euphemism".

There are no comments on this comment yet.