“Chaps: Give up, you’ll never understand women”
GoddessJ claims at times that she can’t understand me. I’ve always said that I’m very easy to understand. This article suggests that I’ve got the upper hand in that argument. 😉
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“Oceans charge up new theory of magnetism”
Interesting idea… I haven’t seen the math (and probably wouldn’t understand it if I did), but there’s some merit to the concept. (It was originally misreported as the oceans causing the Earth’s magnetic field, but this paper only suggests that they affect it.) (Via BoingBoing)
“When I’m dead, how will my loved ones break my password?”
It’s definitely something to consider. I have a lot of digital information that GoddessJ will need access to if I get run over by a beer truck, if only to let my friends and associates know about my demise, but I don’t want to put her in an uncomfortable potential legal position by giving my …
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A CD Savior
Several years ago, before GoddessJ got the MP3 religion, she always carried huge “books” of CDs around with her when we went on long car trips — until on one trip she lost a case containing a dozen or so of her all-time favorite CDs, and realized that she’d never given those CDs to me …
“13 year old kid reviews a 30 year old Sony Walkman”
Kids these days… 😉
“Microsoft bribes Oz to ditch Firefox”
Getting kind of desperate, Microsoft?
“The Green Dam Phenomenon: Governments everywhere are treading on Web freedoms”
If, in the early nineties, the governments of the world had realized just how much power the Internet would offer their citizens, I have little doubt that it would have been quietly strangled in its cradle. Since they missed that opportunity, they’re trying to censor it instead — even in democratic countries that should know …
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“Bowling ball for Wii”
Ever since I gave GoddessJ a Wii for her birthday last month, I’ve been amused and amazed at all the different add-ons for the controllers: plastic implements that make them look like tennis rackets, swords, pistols, even faux cooking utensils. But in my opinion, this one takes the cake. (For the record, we don’t have …
“What Makes Us Happy”
There are so many nuggets of gold in this article that I don’t know where to start. For example: What allows people to work, and love, as they grow old? By the time the Grant Study men had entered retirement, Vaillant, who had then been following them for a quarter century, had identified seven major …
“Ad tech can recognize gender – age next?”
I can see this annoying, rather than helping, several of my acquaintances (such as a girl who prefers Lego sets rather than dolls). And I’m sure there are some people for whom it would always choose the wrong gender. On the plus side, it means guys might not be subjected to quite so many ads …
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