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Have you ever traveled to a location and realized that, in some strange way, you’ve been there before? Or, have you been asked a question that you swore you knew the answer to — but even though it’s on the tip of your tongue, you just can’t seem to get the answer out? These and […]

We all make mistakes. We’re human, not infallible. We’ve all been called on the carpet at work and chastised for an error. It’s just part of the process. But imagine having to take responsibility for a mistake so huge that it caused the water to reverse flow and leave the Gulf of Mexico to create […]

I can’t believe this is even a question.  When you’re given two gadgets of comparable quality, why would anyone choose the gadget with less features, a smaller screen, half as much storage, no SD expansion slot, and no FM tuner over a slightly bulkier piece of technology with somewhat less selection of legal downloadable media […]

Where exactly is the groove? Ah, yes, I see it is in the heart. I never would have been able to understand the true meaning of Deee-Lite’s 1990 dance hit without this chart. But you must be wondering why there is a chart detailing the innerworkings of Deee-Lite’s music. Livejournalers Boyshapedbox and Pacman Is Loving […]

Seventy-five years ago, the communicator that comic strip crime fighter Dick Tracy wore strapped to his wrist was thought to be a flight of fancy. Now cell phones are common among kindergartners. For the clumsy and the absent-minded who are constantly dropping their cell phone into a wet sink or can’t seem to remember where […]

The Italian government doesn’t want to see you guys scratching your junk in public. It irritates them so much that they’ve even been to court over it and a judge has officially made a ruling citing that men need to keep their hands off their naughty bits. Now, let’s be very clear. In Italy, apparently […]

It seems that everything changes radically in the consumer electronics field.  TVs have gone from big square cabinets to flat panels mounted on walls in the course of five years.  Computers made drastic leaps in speed every year, and now the single core processor has been phased out for two, four, or even eight processors […]

Advance Transport Systems (ATS) has a radical idea. They call it ULTra (short for Urban Light Transport), and at first blush it seems as though it’s a great new idea for the age-old problem of moving thousands of people around in a modern city on a day to day basis without cluttering up the streets […]

If I were a superhero, the evil, cape-wearing Captain Clutter would be my arch nemesis and piles of paper would be my kryptonite. I can’t seem to throw anything away. I can always think of some future use or need for every scrap of paper or the information printed on it. The piles teeter and […]

Even after years of innovation from the computer industry, we’re still not to the point where everyone is lucky enough to have a HAL 9000 in their kitchen. But if you consider your home computer part of a large supercomputing network, then you may be able to pretend it’s worth something more than just solitaire […]

There is no such thing as safe data. There’s no consumer operating software that keeps you safe from hackers, Trojans, key loggers, and other nasty stuff out there on the Internet. Even the most complex encryption data programs can be beaten, with a little ingenuity and some liquid nitrogen, as shown in this New York […]

What’s in a name? Letters, maybe a number (that is if you’re Powerman 5000 frontman “Spider 1”). But sometimes length can tell the whole story. Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? Perhaps, just so long as its not like the World’s Longest Movie Title “Night of the Day of the Dawn […]