In Mindnode, you start a mind map by writing your overall goal in the middle of a blank screen.

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Each letter was shown for half a second and followed by a blank screen for two seconds before the next letter appeared.

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The financial figures he had been painstakingly assembling swooned as a group, sucked into the dead blank screen like glittering water pulled down a drain.

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Older DVI monitors without content protection will get nothing but a blank screen when playing protected content (read: any commercial Blu-ray or HD DVD disc released).

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Making a game would be like writing this post with 4, 000 commas that all had to be in the right place to keep the screen from going blank.

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His site is the antithesis of Chatroulette, yet he finds something deeply compelling in the idea of a blank screen, behind which lies a crowd of strangers waiting to talk to you.

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Their challenge is not as great as that of solitary writers staring at a blank computer screen, yellow legal pad, or sheet of paper.

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If he were a TV set, the screen would have gone blank for a seemingly long 10-15 seconds while he consulted his note card.

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Couriers are barred by law from using their computers while driving, and FedEx is required to blank the screen whenever a delivery van is in motion.

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He looks down at the remote screen, which is now mysteriously blank.

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