Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, UBS, HSBC and others have stepped forward to reveal their losses. At some point, enough of the dirty linen will be on the line to let markets discern the shape of the debacle. We are not there yet. Goldman Sachs caused shock last month when it predicted that total crunch losses would reach $500bn, leading to a $2 trillion contraction in lending as bank multiples kick into reverse.
"Our counterparties are telling us that losses may reach $700bn," says Rob McAdie, head of credit at Barclays Capital.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
"Enjoy the war. Peace is going to be terrible."
Monday, December 10, 2007
'don't put this in writing but ... ' Deleteing inappropriate e-mail can establish motive
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Buying "another" guilt offset will not make you "happy" with yourself...
In a study commissioned by the National Lottery, Dr Richard Tunney of the University's School of Psychology found that it's the simple things in life that impact most positively on our sense of well being.
Those who described themselves as less happy didn't choose the cost-free indulgences.
"... there are small lessons we can learn from society's happiest people to help improve our quality of life," Dr Tunney added.
Monday, November 12, 2007
QWERTY is slow, gives you RSI!
GOOGLER AS PATIENT
TIME - Every doctor knows patients like this. They're called "brainsuckers." By the time they come in, they've visited many other docs already somehow unable to stick with any of them. They have many complaints, which rarely translate to hard findings on any objective tests. They talk a lot. I often wonder, while waiting for them to pause, if there are patients like this in poor, war-torn countries where the need for doctors is more dire. . .
Susan had neither the trust of a nurse nor the teachability of an engineer. She would ignore no theory of any culture or any quack, regarding her very common brand of knee pain. On and on she went as I retreated further within. I marveled, sitting there silenced by her diatribe. Hers was such a fully orbed and vigorous self-concern that it possessed virtue in its own right. Her complete and utter selfishness was nearly a thing of beauty. . .
I knew Susan was a Googler queen, perhaps, of all Googlers. But I couldn't dance with this one. I couldn't even get a word in edgewise.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Your Iphone DOES NOT affect the quality of your image.
Monday, November 5, 2007
Parkinson's Law - Why people work till 5.
The Greening of the CIO
The notion of a corporate chief information officer is fairly new -- less than thirty years old -- but the CIO's role has grown in lockstep with the strategic importance of information and knowledge management inside companies. Their ability to think strategically about information technology can help a company innovate, grow markets, streamline operations, cut costs, and generally improve competitiveness.
Now, the CIO is poised to help companies be greener, too.
The energy use of computers and such is just the beginning. It seems there are other potentially powerful ways in which chief information officers can play a role in the greening of companies
I'm guessing that very few companies are thinking of their CIOs as strategic players on the green scene -- that most companies assume, as I did, that aside from the energy consumption of IT equipment, there aren't many other CIO linkages with their company's environmental performance. That's simply wrong -- and a lost opportunity. As environmental challenges and opportunities continue to spread across company functions -- well beyond traditional environmental departments to include every nook and cranny of business operations -- the information needs and capabilities will loom large. Along the way, CIOs will stand to become key players in the growing world of green business.
And maybe make their companies' sales team a little happier along the way.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Zombies live and 78% of them report having a social networking profile
Monday, October 22, 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007
Is creativecommunication.com interested in Dave Wacker?
Using Client:Mac OS X / Safari 4.19
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Three Degrees Of IT's Environmental Impact
Businesses need to focus less on how IT contributes to their environmental impact and more on how IT can help lessen the environmental impact of business operations and the supply chain or that of enterprise products and services, according to Gartner Inc.
Analysts warned that although making IT more green must remain a concern, there are areas where deploying more IT can significantly contribute to making an organization more environmentally sustainable.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
IT directors losing influence
Anonymous web service that provides you with a temporary email address
How to downgrade Vista Business/Ultimate to XP Pro? Follow the step by step guide below.
Monday, October 1, 2007
IT'S THE PARENTS, NOT THEIR CHILDREN, WHO ARE OUT OF CONTROL
We know the rest of the script: Commentators brand teenagers as stupid, crazy, reckless, immature, irrational and even alien, then advocate tough curbs on youthful freedoms. . .
Why do many pundits and policy makers rush to denigrate adolescents as brainless? One troubling possibility: youths are being maligned to draw attention from the reality that it's actually middle-aged adults - the parents -whose behavior has worsened.
Our most reliable measures show Americans ages 35 to 54 are suffering ballooning crises:
- 18,249 deaths from overdoses of illicit drugs in 2004, up 550 percent per capita since 1975, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics.
- 46,925 fatal accidents and suicides in 2004, leaving today's middle-agers 30 percent more at risk for such deaths than people aged 15 to 19, according to the national center.
- More than four million arrests in 2005, including one million for violent crimes, 500,000 for drugs and 650,000 for drinking-related offenses, according to the F.B.I. All told, this represented a 200 percent leap per capita in major index felonies since 1975.
- 630,000 middle-agers in prison in 2005, up 600 percent since 1977, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
- 21 million binge drinkers (those downing five or more drinks on one occasion in the previous month), double the number among teenagers and college students combined, according to the government's National Household Survey on Drug Use and Health.
- 370,000 people treated in hospital emergency rooms for abusing illegal drugs in 2005, with overdose rates for heroin, cocaine, pharmaceuticals and drugs mixed with alcohol far higher than among teenagers.
- More than half of all new H.I.V./AIDS diagnoses in 2005 were given to middle-aged Americans, up from less than one-third a decade ago, according to the Centers for Disease Control. . .
It's true that 30 years ago, the riskiest age group for violent death was 15 to 24. But those same boomers continue to suffer high rates of addiction and other ills throughout middle age, while later generations of teenagers are better behaved. Today, the age group most at risk for violent death is 40 to 49, including illegal-drug death rates five times higher than for teenagers.
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Social networks... more Harm or hurtful than helpful?
The Cult of Us - What MySpace living is doing to our minds (from http://www.newscientisttech.com)
For millions of people, especially among the under-25s, online culture is becoming the only culture that matters. Take the plunge, and the world becomes one massive network in which users band together to share just about everything. Chatrooms and newsgroups have evolved into social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook. Whatever your interest, from biology to extreme sports, there's a website where you can share your thoughts with the like-minded.
But what is the culture really about? Where will it end up? Too early to say, perhaps,
I'll have to ask my friends – Instant messaging, Wi-Fi and cellphones allow us to be constantly plugged into our social networks. Sociologist Sherry Turkle worries this is transforming human psychology
The end of privacy? – You wouldn't tell a stranger on the bus about your sexual habits, so why do people reveal this stuff on websites available to everyone? Will their openness return to haunt them?
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Google – A short story by Bruce Sterling
The internet could be so much better – Social networking websites like MySpace or YouTube owe everything to the genius of Ted Nelson, who invented hypertext in the 1960s
Chris (WI) comments:
Social update: While I think the web is a great place for media, data & connecting... it is by design a "anit-social" network. Only on the web will someone have a two hour talk on myspace to a "fictional" person... these social networks will be the erosion of our youth communication & social skills. Furthermore the web has "dissolved" the need for general knowledge... if someone is not sure or doesn't know... they "google" it with no learning or cognitive thought involved. In the 90's most if the net was "solid" information... now social networks & (unqualified) mass media have fluffed and dumbdown the web to the point of less than 5% is new or relevant information. I often get "cut n paste" ideas, answers, resume, replies and comments with no thought or creative conscience involved. As you do in the "online game arena", I meet real people with real names on the science networks, that makes it still a good place to connect with people in a semi social way. While I grew up on the internet & TV... but, was raised to turn them off and learn. Computers are tools created to enrich life not erode it.
Chris (ATL) comments:
Personally, I think that social networks are helpful. But, there should be limits. I have joined several groups both for business and pleasure, and they are really only worth what you are willing to put into them. Age is a factor that scares me about things like MySpace where kids of any age can interact with anyone. I have a son... , so the internet makes me nervous. Just knowing that he could possibly hop onto one of the sites while I have my back turned is scary. One of my co-workers has 2 teenage daughters, and she got a program that records EVERYTHING that happens on her daughter's computers. She can then see what is happening and talk to her kids. I think that any parent out there that doesn't have such an animal is just asking for trouble.
Be the part of something bigger than ego's or economics.
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Martin Luther King Jr. |
Monday, July 9, 2007
AMERICA IS THE 'NO VACATION NATION'
"In other words, they combined a lousy performance with a high sense of self-esteem,"
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Why Top Employees Quit
To do this, we reviewed notes from exit interviews, cross referenced annual reviews and ultimately came up with 178 voluntary terminations from people that would have been considered in the top 20%.
To try and keep focused on macro issues, we consolidated the responses and placed them into categories:
- Money
- Unchallenged
- Too Challenged
- Dead Company
- Watch your Levels (and the BS)
Here is the breakdown of the categories. I know someone is bound to ask why it doesn't add up so... Please keep in mind that this will not add up to 178 because several people insisted on listing 2-3 reasons when the question only asked for 1 reason.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Thursday, May 3, 2007
"Metacrap" is a very strong, coherent, pointed critique of the dream of metadata.
They are just a lot of categories of information that we can't draw lines between. . .
Higher education industry is becoming a racket...
Higher Education Conformity - Is a college degree really a sign of competence? Or is it chiefly a signal to employers that you've mastered the ability to obey and conform? College degree chiefly as mark of one's ability to obey and conform. Whatever else you learn in college, you learn to sit still for long periods while appearing to be awake. And whatever else you do in a white collar job, most of the time you'll be sitting and feigning attention. Sitting still for hours on end -- whether in library carrels or office cubicles -- does not come naturally to humans. It must be learned -- although no college has yet been honest enough to offer a degree in seat-warming.
Or maybe what attracts employers to college grads is the scent of desperation. Unless your parents are rich and doting, you will walk away from commencement with a debt averaging $20,000 and no health insurance. Employers can safely bet that you will not be a trouble-maker, a whistle-blower or any other form of non-"team-player." You will do anything. You will grovel.
College can be the most amazingly enlightening experience of a lifetime. I loved almost every minute of it...
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Saturday, April 7, 2007
Human brain a marvel? Not if you ask this guy.
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Thin Clients are the New Black...
http://www.webitpr.com/release_detail.asp?ReleaseID=5616
30 Days With Vista - Shot me now
PowerPoint Bad For Learning
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
PayPerPost - Ethics of Paid Blogging
The LA Times accuses PayPerPost of paying bloggers to make up fictional testimonials. For instance, the Times reports that a law firm is using PayPerPost to pay bloggers to write that a certain birth control patch is killing and injuring young women. Rua does not deny these claims, but simply states they are the exception and not the rule. How long before the FTC follows through on their promise to enforce blogger disclosure?"
Link http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/27/2153205&from=rss
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Unfocused multitasking makes you less productive and dumb
© Jorge Delgado/iStockphoto
Turns out that sheer intelligence is not enough.... It also takes a good attention span and training your mind to "self regulate" or focus on the task at hand. This month's "Scientific American" article by Christie Nicholson points out, "The measure for academic success for decades has been a person's intelligence quotient, or IQ. But new research published in the journal Child Development says that a thought process called "executive functioning," which governs the ability to reason and mentally focus, also plays a critical role in learning, especially when it comes to math skills."
Inhibitory control is the ability to halt automatic impulses and focus on the problem at hand. For example, people use inhibitory control when they decide to take different routes to their jobs, because they have to make a conscious effort to override the regular route they otherwise would almost automatically follow.
Children with good inhibitory control are able, in essence, to multitask, or use known solution strategies in new ways. In this study 141 healthy children between the ages of three and five years took a battery of psychological tests that measured their IQs and executive functioning. Researchers found that a child IQ and executive functioning were both above average was three times more likely to succeed in math than a kid who simply had a high IQ.
"[The fact] that executive function, even in children this young, is significantly related to early math performance suggests that if we can improve executive function, we can improve their academic performance," says Adele Diamond, professor of developmental cognitive neuroscience at the University of British Columbia.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Want a higher I.Q. Hint: Start Playing Grand Theft Auto...
Rising trend line in intelligence test scores. And that, in turn, suggested that something in the environment - some social or cultural force - was driving the trend.
This is the sort of chart you get, with 100 being a perfect match and 0 pure randomness:
Identical twins raised together: 86
Identical twins raised apart: 76
Fraternal twins raised together: 55
Biological siblings: 47
Parents and children living together: 40
Parents and children living apart: 31
Adopted children living together: 0
Unrelated people living apart: 0
It's not schools, since the tests that measure education-driven skills haven't shown the same steady gains. It's not nutrition - general improvement in diet leveled off in most industrialized countries shortly after World War II, just as the Flynn effect was accelerating.
But that's child's play compared with Pokmon.
Intellectual breakthroughs are what happen when you're busy making other plans. (J.Lennon)
Friday, March 16, 2007
Why was Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) scrapped?
Noah's recent interview with DARPA's director, Tony Tether, the agency head emphasized progress in cognitive computing, saying:
We're on the verge of having computers with densities approaching a monkey's brain, and it won't be long before we'll have a computer with the density of transistors, or equivalent to neurons and almost human. What we're missing is the architecture. So it seemed like it was time. We had great advances in algorithms for reasoning and in algorithms that learned in general. At the same time, the computers, the actual intrinsic hardware, was really approaching the density of a human brain. And so it seemed like it was time to try again. We've had some great success.
Somehow, I doubt the agency is going to provide any more clues about why this research ended up on the chopping block.
Source: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/03/darpas_brain_dr.html
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
The real NY-Times story of "Terry Tao"
I would have titled the "Terry Tao" NY - Times story...
"Terry Tao" a normal "math genius" raised by smart father, Billy Tao
Behind the mind is a family and father... Great job Dr. Billy Tao!
Big surprise that most generation-Y's blame their parents
An overwhelming number of young readers not only rejected being compared to the boomer generation, but also blamed boomers for the social conditions that gave rise to narcissism."The boomers screwed people my age royally," medstudgeek wrote in a post titled Why don't you read 'Generation Debt' for starters. "Everything costs too much ... housing, college, health insurance, etc. If you're 100K in debt you're going to play along with the corporate masters to pay off your loans ... and is this an accident? ... [Y]ou boomers polluted the environment, drove the country into debt (twice!), outsourced our jobs to India, and made all of us narcissistic with your 'self-esteem' movement, and now you're blaming the victim. Young people have Myspace pages? The horror."
....the reasons for Generation Y's narcissism are abundant:
Lets start with our families. 50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second and 74% of third marriages end in divorce. Thats a lot of broken homes and step children. What are you saying to your child when you divorce his or her mother because 'things aren't working out between us'? You're saying that you don't care about anyone's problems but your own, and you'll take the easiest way out if possible. ......I haven't even begun to talk about the social pecking order that's been created because of this, or the materialism that helps feed it. We didn't create the world we've lived in thus far, it was created for us by our parents. We 'don't care' because we don't have time too, we're busy living up to everyone else's expectations. We're 'narcissistic' because we have no one to go to for support; we only have the groups of other kids that we made ourselves.
Full crap here:
http://www.alternet.org/story/49193/
Monday, March 12, 2007
New Study - Narcissist love themselves consciously and unconsciously
We often attribute typical gen-y,x narcissist's shallow behavior to an unconscious self-loathing. However, new research suggests that narcissists actually view themselves the same on the outside as on the inside.
Previous studies have shown that narcissists' conscious self-views are not uniformly positive. Narcissists see themselves as being above average in areas such as status, dominance and intelligence, but not in areas such as kindness, morality, and emotional intimacy.
Yikes... he REALLY doesn't think he is a big jerk. REALLY ;-)
Devil's Advocate Really Just an Ass....
Why a career in computer programming sucks
Let’s being by reviewing what I previously wrote about the four types of human capital.
Nice comments on this digg... reddit... whatever, social timewasting network of the month
"If making $130k a year sucks, there are plenty of people willing to take HS's place. This kind of talk really gets very little sympathy from the rest of America. If programming sucks, try working in a factory or any job that gets exposure to the weathers. How many patent lawyers do we really need?"
Computer programming is a job that’s heavily dependent on temporary knowledge capital. Only if you're bad at it.
Friday, March 9, 2007
Linux reduces e-waste by 50%
Thus, a world using Linux would be a world with half the computer waste (and, admittedly, halved sales for Dell and the rest.)
A widespread switch to Linux could prevent millions of tons of waste from going into landfills. Every computer not needed would prevent the use of 240 kg of fossil fuels. Spread that out over the 17.5 million computers that wouldn't be going obsolete every year and Linux could deliver the world a much more sustainable future. Link (via Digg)
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
AlterNet: Hey Under-30s Crowd, Have You Overdosed on Narcissism?
That makes "current college students more narcissistic than baby boomers and Gen-Xers," its authors conclude. (Data points between 1982 and 1990 are few, says Professor Twenge, also the author of "Generation Me.")
That quality can be amplified when school's out.
"Gen-Y is the most difficult workforce I've ever encountered, because part of them are greatest-generation great and the other part are so self-indulgent as to be genuinely offensive to know, let alone supervise," says Marian Salzman, a trendspotter and senior vice president at JWT, the global advertising agency.
Nice Free Video Conversion Program
Dr. DivX 2.5.1
Any video you download or play through the internet has been encoded, probably in one of the three key formats. However, if you want to put your own video online, but want control over the compression, how do you encode your video for online playback? Dr DivX is an encoding application that will enable you to encode your video in the popular DivX format so that most users can play your video either online or offline, on their computer. As the DivX codec is freely available for both the Windows and Mac operating systems, it is a wise choice for compressing your video. Dr DivX is very easy to use and you can compress your video in as little as three easy steps. Your audio is encoded too so, if you happen to have added surround sound audio to your video, this will be incorporated in to your compressed video.Monday, March 5, 2007
Dark Reading - Desktop Security - Vint Cerf: Father Knows Best - Security News Analysis
'Security is a mesh of actions and features and mechanisms,' he says. 'No one thing makes you secure.'"
Microsoft Vista, IE7 Banned By U.S. DOT
Friday, March 2, 2007
Specially challenged narcissists
NPR: That “I am special” mantra has created a collegiate wave of narcissists
A little news spike this week greeted word of a study of self-absorption, or narcissism, among college students. It’s from San Diego State University researchers based on trends in scores on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory test. Alex Chadwick is emphatic that college kids are getting too full of themselves. She wrote the book (literally). She blames it on schools, media, and parents in that order. The old “self-esteem” mania of the 80s and 90s gets its knocks. Among other ways kids get the idea they are entitled to prominence, she says, is a preschool ditty whose main lyric is “I am special.” Hence, You Tube. …. Man, wonder how professional major league athletes would score on that inventory.Other stories: AP David Crary; LA Times Larry Gordon, Louis Sahagun; (VIA ksjtracker.mit.edu)
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Opposing Net Neutrality a Political Third Rail
Together we won the first round in the battle for Net freedom. But the phone and cable giants are launching a counterattack. We need to raise the alarm and send a clear message to our new Congress: Make Net Neutrality the Law in 2007!
Washington Post: Opposing Net Neutrality a Political Third Rail
Opposing Net Neutrality has become a political third rail for candidates who seek elected office, according to a story today in the Washington Post. Post reporter Charles Babington praised SavetheInternet.com Coalition efforts to mobilize the netroots and...
Friday, February 23, 2007
Electroshock therapy for "Internet addicts"
The Chinese government is imprisoning and giving electric shocks to people it thinks have become addicted to the Internet.
Alarmed by a survey that found that nearly 14 percent of teens in China are vulnerable to becoming addicted to the Internet, the Chinese government has launched a nationwide campaign to stamp out what the Communist Youth League calls 'a grave social problem' that threatens the nation.
In terms of withdrawal: 'If you let someone go online and then he can't go online, you may see a physical reaction, just like someone coming off drugs.' And in terms of resistance: 'Today you go half an hour, and the next day you need 45 minutes. It's like starting with drinking one glass and then needing half a bottle to feel the same way.'"
Google's 'Sponsored Links' Threatens Internet Free Speech
EFF Asks Judge to Uphold Key Trademark Ruling- The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals today to uphold an important ruling allowing anyone to purchase Google's "sponsored links" tied to trademarks, arguing that the practice is legal under trademark law and provides a vital means for online speakers to connect with audiences on the Internet.
Google's "sponsored links" feature allows customers to buy advertisements attached to certain search terms. When a Google user types those terms into the search engine, the sponsored links appear along with the search results. However, a company named Rescuecom filed a lawsuit against Google over the program, claiming that selling sponsored links for the term "Rescuecom" infringed its trademark.
"On the Internet, trademarks aren't just identifiers. They are essential navigation tools and vehicles of expression," said EFF Staff Attorney Jason Schultz. "Quashing this speech goes against both the law and the public interest."A judge dismissed Rescuecom's case against Google last year, but the company is appealing the decision.
"consuming more resources than you bring in"
Carol Sanford at MIT: "It’s a hell of a way to run a business -- consuming more resources than you bring in, selling off your assets, and cooking the books to make things look good. Yet that is precisely how humans are operating the vast enterprise of living on earth. The U.S. runs a particularly unsuccessful 'Business of Inhabitation', taking up four times more resources than any other nation [...] meeting regulatory requirements and adopting a sustainable approach 'fall short of what we need to do for the planet'. Our problem-solving minds break things down and seek ways merely 'to arrest disorder' or protect what appears valuable [...] We need an evolutionary leap into the 'wholeness mindset,' which involves asking how we regenerate and bring in more of what we need without degrading what is already there." She begins speaking at 5 minutes 22 seconds into the video. ::Video: Carol Sanford at MIT. See also: ::William A. McDonough Conference from 2000, ::Video: Amory Lovins on Winning the Oil Endgame, ::Video: Max Carcas of Ocean Power Delivery, ::Google TechTalks: Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Biofuels
THANKS! TreeHugger :-)Video: Sustainability is Only Half the Solution, Regeneration is the Other Half
Goodbye - CF, the 3 watt LED bulb is here
Innovative Pharox LED Lamp Uses 3.4W: Replaces 40W Incandescent
In netherlands
An innovative LED lamp named Pharox has been launched in the Netherlands. Apparently, this 3 watt bulb is a serious replacement for a 40 watt incandescent bulb. It is rated at 60 lumens per watt. The bulb was created by Lemnis Lighting, by two members of the Philips family.
Thanks for post - TreeHunger
Thursday, February 22, 2007
200 million Americans Are Scientifically Illiterate
The good news: America's science literacy rate is up from a pathetic 10 percent in 1988. The bad news: it's still only 28 percent."
The forces of ignorance have squelched science across history, to the present restrictions on federal funding for critical research.
Elites’ exploiting their scientific knowledge for power is also not new. Mayan elites, for instance, used their extraordinary knowledge of mathematics, engineering, and astronomy to build great cities and temples--and sumptuous palaces for themselves--and to awe and control the masses through a religion that included ripping the hearts out of sacrificial victims.
And what might the consequences of this illiteracy and ensuing cultural backwardness be? Nothing less than the destruction of civilization itself...
Answer to why we act like jerks online
This New York Times story on the psychopathology of flame wars has -- surprise! -- generated much heated discussion around the internet:
John Suler, a psychologist at Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J., suggested that several psychological factors lead to online disinhibition: the anonymity of a Web pseudonym; invisibility to others; the time lag between sending an e-mail message and getting feedback; the exaggerated sense of self from being alone; and the lack of any online authority figure. Dr. Suler notes that disinhibition can be either benign — when a shy person feels free to open up online — or toxic, as in flaming.Over on Metafilter, user scblackman rounds up links to some related web references:
What's behind those flaming hot e-mails or UseNet flame wars or MetaFilter comments?. Perhaps, as John Suler suggested, there are a number of factors, including dissociative anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, solipsistic introjection (altered self-boundaries), dissociative imagination, and minimzation of authority, as he discussed in his fascinating 2004 paper.Link to that MeFi thread, in which several commenters said the NYT article reminded them of the timeless comic above.
Image: Penny Arcade.
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007
65% of Americans Spend More Time With Their PC Than SO
I.T. Killed the Webmaster...
Sunday, January 21, 2007
pig farms are some of America's worst polluters
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Dilberts mom in love with Linux distro?
Want to take Linux for a spin? Forget partitions, dual-boot setups and live CDs: The new Ubuntu Windows installer lets you run the Linux distro while keeping the rest of your system intact. Just run the installer, Great way to run Ubuntu without the hassles of partitioning or burning a live CD! |