Nope: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/naught Viz., http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nought?s=t Sub "Can be confused." Go directly to gaol-jail: I will not be knotted by your naughty noughts! Reminds me of the Japanese tongue-twister we were taught (he thought): "Niwa ni wa ni wa uraniwa ni wa niwatori ga imasu!" "In the [front] yard [and] in the back yard there are two birds."

In your signature: "nought" s/b "naught". "You've been a naugh'y boy, Clement!" ;P

Whether LI's endorsements, recommendations, awards, or constant stream of announcements actually do any good is eternally questionable. One take on the situation "historically" though, was that there was a problem that came up c. '89/'90 that meant no one in California was willing to give any recommendation. Seems (and it could have been an early urban myth) that there was a woman who had gotten a positive recommendation from someone, then turned around and sued them because of that recommendation, after she got the job because she decided she didn't like it. She apparently won that episode of lawsuit-terrorism, and it then became harder to get a recommendation in California than it was to find a rental when you happened to have a dog. "Now look what you made me do!"

If you've never thrown an exception, you're just sitting in the bleachers.

What's the use? It will not sell. Basis for this: "Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses." —Dorothy Parker With the cultural bias against glasses and the market predominance of laser-operation providers and contact-lens manufacturers, that isn't going to change. Only geeks that already wear heavy glasses, and who want to watch porn and play pocket pool while at, or walking to/from, work will really want these. They're already being banned in jurisdictions wise enough to realize that they are a dangerous distraction. Conclusion: don't let hardware [hardwear?] geeks do your market research, unless it's solely to geeks you would market it. That being said, there is still room for a GG "killer app": Autocall911 (in the US & Canada), Autocall999 (in Britain), and Schonverfickt112 (in the rest of the EU). Using motion sensors, it will automatically call for emergency medical attention on severe impact, providing pre-set explanatory phrases to the dispatchers, phrases such as "Help! I've just walked under a bus!" and "Help! I've just been punched in the face by someone who got fed up with the St Vitus-dance head bobbing and antisocial GG-speak I was doing trying to read my email while they thought we were having a conversation!" Oh, wait, there's a hardware add-on that would be great, too! "GlassBag"! No, not a scrotal condition, but one that would use forward-facing video analysis to measure the speed with which objects were approaching the face of someone wearing GG. It would inflate an airbag automatically to protect GG and the wearer's face from things like the power pole, delivery van or bodybuilder he had just walked into.

similis sum folio de quo ludunt venti

It's just Vist8, as far as I'm concerned—another Microsoft dot-zero release to avoid. Time to wait for them to come to their senses and remove the Metro mess, then ship Windows 9.

Ah, more victims of illiterate literalization :(( ! One of the signs of global warming is escalation of climate instability, like 49 of the 50 US States suddenly having snow at one time, after several years of winters, across "the South" in particular, when there was no freeze. Just wait--more signs of global warming will be armadillo roadkill in Chicago, and Scotland turning into the Yukon...