Jefferson Hunter's account of Edwardian fiction employs similar imagery when he argues that 'nostalgic Edwardianism' is invested in this idea of the 'single long country-house weekend from Edward's coronation to his passing and, beyond that, to the guns of August'.

A natural (non-binary) measure of the degree of rationality exhibited by the consumer is the minimum number of data points whose removal induces a rationalisable data-set.

Not for the first time, he reflected that it was not so much the speeches that strained the nerves as the palaver that went with them.

The visions of ubicomp are compelling, and from Weiser's perspective they are very human-centered.