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• Geographers do it around the world.
• GEOGRAPHERS do it everywhere
• Hackers do it locally (or globally).
• As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know abou
  adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs....
• Think globally; act locally. -- Rene Dubo
• So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Poetry, a Rhapsody...
• AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Windows 2000 is more secure than Linux... Since the machine is offline half of the time because of crashes, it cannot be accessed globally, therefore producing higher security.
  -- From a Slashdot.org po...
• grep /grep/ vi. [from the qed/ed editor idiom g/re/p
  where re stands for a regular expression, to Globally search for the Regular Expression and Print the lines containing matches to it, via Unix grep(1)] To rapidly scan a file or set of files looking for a particular string or pattern (when browsing through a large set of files, one may speak of `grepping around')....