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Some helpful links, or whatever.
“Have you ever copied some text from a web page, a word document, help, etc., and wanted to paste it as simple text into another application without getting all the formatting from the original source? PureText makes this simple.”
Interested in a first-hand account of a strumpet named Rita?
Also sent to me by the ever-watchful Susan Kirkland, “Access Copyright is a lobbying organization that’s trying to be like the big musicians’ org that collects licensing fees. Another corporate entity
setting itself up to profit off creatives. Drives me mad.”
Everything, and I mean everything you wanted to know on dashes.
Don’t recognize any of the words in that review other than “book”? A glossary of literary criticism.
And finally, are you not the most welcome person on the message board? Lifehacker brings you a guide to being a good commenter.

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