“Naps Can Seriously Improve All-Day Learning Abilities”
I never needed to be convinced of this, but it’s nice to know nonetheless.
Archive of posts filed under the Amusing/Interesting/Appalling category.
Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
“Chilean mint misspells Chile”
Oops. I guess someone should have paid more attention in school. 😉
“Note to Captain Kirk: Warp speed will kill you”
Well, duh! That’s what shields were invented for! 😉
“Detecting Cheating by Analyzing Erased Answers”
When I first read this, I couldn’t believe it. But then I thought about it a little more, and realized that it fits a general scenario: whenever you give people a sufficiently large reason (severe penalties for failure, or large bonuses for success), they’re going to try to game the system. Always. Yes, even (some) …
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“Hearing aid you wear on your tooth”
In one of the science fiction series that I used to read, the hero kept in constant contact with his robot companion through a surgically implanted microphone and earphone. This isn’t quite in that league, but it sounds like a solid piece of work. I have to wonder if it would work on denture-wearers, though. …
“LED ax light great for camping, scaring intruders”
All I can say to this is, “um, yeah.” Something else I’d never have thought of myself… and likely with good reason. 🙂
“Hands-on: D&D on the Microsoft Surface”
“Seriously, though, wouldn’t you have killed for this when you were 14?” I certainly would have. Sometimes I regret the inevitability of growing up (or at least older 😉 ). (Via LifeHacker’s “Remains of the Day” feature)
Attack of the Spambots?
Geek Drivel is suddenly ridiculously popular with would-be blog spammers. I’m told that my primary defenses have blocked more than 400 automated spam messages in the last week, and maybe a dozen have gotten past them — all caught by my secondary defenses, I’m happy to say. I’m not sure what prompted this sudden surge …
“The Smarter You Are, The Less You Click”
If that translates to TV and radio too, it might explain why idiot talk-shows are so popular with advertisers (and broadcasters).
Amusing Spam
Spam messages are rarely amusing enough for me to post anymore, but this one takes the cake: Subject: Hegihten the qulaity of your ereictons with Soft (ialis. Biggest_bIowout_sale of \/aIium in our onIine pharmacy Sorry guys, but SpamBayes wasn’t fooled. You’ll have to do better than misspelled words and ASCII art to get past it.