This is in direct contrast to Edinburgh, where local shopkeepers and places of entertainment have been known to keep their calendar by university terms and know exactly when graduations, rectorials, and rags take place.

Generally speaking, in a shared computing system, such as a server farm shared by multiple cohosted Web sites, common resources can be categorized into two different types: those shared in time and those shared in space.

Czechoslovak sneakernets were structured around the geopolitical barriers and foreign trade regulations, but without any direct intervention from the authorities. The networks were improvisational and unruly, but also robust and reliable. … Sneakernets were experienced as movement rather than as a service or a set of formalized transactions.

Cats, on the other hand, seem to have a knack for surviving these natural disasters, but too often wind up as furry little speed bumps on the side of the road, blood oozing from their meowless mouths, victims of passing delivery trucks.