"There is no question that the idea that Silicon Valley is the darling of our markets and of our society — that sentiment is definitely turning," said Tim O'Reilly, an adviser to tech executives and chief executive of the influential technology publisher O'Reilly Media.
Rest in peace Darling Dan, our thoughts and prayers will be with you always.
"I am very pleased to welcome Mr Darling to our board.
My dear darling Barbara, our heartfelt sympathy to you and your entire family on the loss of your wonderful Mom.
It's also the darling of our dip plate, and this version from Middle Eastern restaurant Honey and Co is one of the best we've ever eaten.
A good case could be made for Philip Hammond, the Alistair Darling of our time, inheriting the economy just as things are turning sour.
No other artist garnered more, part of the reason Smith was a darling of our judges.
Kaling is a Twitter darling -- our entire editorial staff can be counted in her 1.8 million followers, and Fast Company wonders whether this tweet-power will translate into ratings.
And from 1965, when another faraway war got its jolt of righteous escalation from Washington's certainty, Richard Farina wrote: "And death will be our darling and fear will be our name".
On which note, here's David Barnett on the charm of battered books - and you can upload pictures of your own beat-up, sellotaped, coverless darlings to our trashed tomes flickr group.
Fechner was much taken to task for his failure to endorse a thorough going panpsychism by, among others, Lotze, who wrote (referring to Fechner's (1848) Nanna, or On the Mental Life of the Plants) "one cannot search for the mind arbitrarily in the plants, the darlings of our fantasy, and remain satisfied with the existence of dead matter in the rocks" (Lotze 1852, p. 133).
