Last Mile: Unintended uses for USB media drives; anagram genius; good is backward.

The Anagram Genius

There's nothing like a good anagram to stimulate the little gray cells. But sometimes they're simply good for poking fun at the competition. Some results culled from the Anagram Genius Web site:

NWFusion

• Sufi 'n' now (we had no idea they were religious)

• If own sun (a possible merger on the horizon?)• UFOs 'n' win (there's one mystery solved)

InfoWorld

• Now florid (explaining a low occurrence of cavities)

• Down for Il (we thought they were based in Mass.)

• Now oil FDR (for you conspiracy theorists)TechTarget

• Get hate CRT (we're not sure what to make of this one)

• Get hat cert (at last, a Linux bias)

• Thee rat CTG (insert your own acronym here)

Create your own satirical anagrams at www.anagramgenius.com/server.html.

Good Is Backward

NWC Senior Technology Editor Mike Fratto recently spotted the following post on the Full Disclosure mailing list. Read very carefully (dyslexics can read normally).

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.

Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?A: Top-posting.

Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail?

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