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| Jan 13, 2017 | An Apple Pencil Patent describes a 3D Antenna and Magnet for Attaching to External Objects Categories Search | When Apple launched their iPad Pro in the fall of 2015 with its softcover Smart Keyboard and Pencil, they blatantly forgot to provide a mechanism that would allow users to attach their Pencil to the iPad in any way. Apple was granted a pate... |
| Aug 18, 2014 | The Mystery Of Lorem Ipsum | If you’ve spent any time around designers or the Internet, you’ll at least have a passing familiarity with a chunk of text so pervasive online that it’s almost invisible. Called Greeking or Lorem Ipsum, the chunk of Latin is used by many de... |
| Jan 16, 2012 | 5 Sorting Algorithms Facebook Should Consider Instead of Highlighted Stories | No matter how many times I tell Facebook I want it to display the most recent updates from my friends first, it keeps reverting to highlighted stories. You can (attempt to) influence Facebook’s sorting by manually tagging stories, but if Fa... |
| Apr 14, 2011 | Is It Infringement To Get Your Favorite Sports Team Logo Tattooed On Your Body? | Interesting timing. Just after we were discussing the copyright implications of tattoos, jprlk points us to a recent issue of The Straight Dope, in which Cecil Adams takes on the question of the legality of tattooing your favorite sports te... |
| Feb 9, 2011 | Getting Lost, Even With a Map | If you travel as much as I do then you would know what it is like to not know where you're going. I'll be honest, I don't know every street of every Australian city's CBD by heart, so I, like so many other people, am left relying on the qua... |
| Jan 26, 2011 | DailyDirt: Modern Dentistry | Not too many people enjoy going to the dentist — which probably feeds into the urban legend that dentists have the highest suicide rates. But there may be a few dental developments that’ll make going to the dentist a bit less scary. Being f... |
| Dec 30, 2009 | Thomas Jefferson Decided The Hemp Brake Was Too Important To Patent | We’ve had plenty of discussions about Thomas Jefferson’s views on the patent system. He is, clearly, the father of the patent system in the US. While he was incredibly skeptical of the idea of granting any monopolies originally, he did come... |
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FAQ about The Straight Dope
What has the press written about The Straight Dope?
Parsers VC has collected 8 articles mentioning The Straight Dope, among them “An Apple Pencil Patent describes a 3D Antenna and Magnet for Attaching to External Objects Categories Search” (Jan 13, 2017) and “The Mystery Of Lorem Ipsum” (Aug 18, 2014).
Is The Straight Dope still active?
Yes, The Straight Dope is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 20, 2026.