Just another nerd.
Both food security and cybersecurity appear to be on the decline at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation’s website.
Mind you, this is an organization with an annual budget north of US $1 billion.
Between 2000 and 2002, a series of six television ads were created featuring Batman to promote the OnStar. This is the second of the six ads that aired.
Apparently, the use of the asterisk as a proofreading mark goes back to the second century BCE. According to Wikipedia,
The asterisk has already been used as a symbol in ice age cave paintings. There is also a two thousand year old character used by Aristarchus of Samothrace called the asteriskos, ?, which he used when proofreading Homeric poetry to mark lines that were duplicated. Origen is known to have also used the asteriskos to mark missing Hebrew lines from his Hexapla. The asterisk evolved in shape over time, but its meaning as a symbol used to correct defects remained.
In the Middle Ages, the asterisk was used to emphasize a particular part of text, often linking those parts of the text to a marginal comment. However, an asterisk was not always used.
Between 2000 and 2002, a series of six television ads were created featuring Batman to promote the OnStar. This is the first of the six ads that aired.
Sentinel adds Deadpool to its Fighting Armor series of 6″ action figures.
