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If you are, you aren’t alone. Lance Whitney at CNET wrote about the Mobile Messaging Study commissioned by Neverfail and conducted by Osterman Research. Judging from the press release, I believe the point of the study was to show how many people use business e-mail and how important it is to protect your e-mail infrastructure.
While watching the live stream of CNET’s Buzz Out Loud podcast, I lost the ability to form a coherent sentence for about 10 minutes. That’s when I learned of Ubisoft’s new digital rights management (DRM) strategy for PC games. In case you’re not familiar with the term, DRM refers to any sort of copyright protection designed to prevent piracy. The hosts cited a story in PC Gamer (via Slashdot) about how the new DRM scheme affects Ubisoft PC games.
My co-blogger Cristen is in the midst of a two-part series on the perfect pasta, a topic that has been near and dear to my heart since I spent a college semester abroad in Italy. And after reading her entry on tomatoes, I immediately began to crave what I always crave after eating a good spaghetti sauce: gelato.
For those of you who have always wondered about the difference between gelato and ice cream, wonder no more.
Good question – How can a mascot costume eat a cheerleader?
by Marshall Brain | February 18, 2010
Many people have been intrigued by the recent video of a team mascot eating a cheerleader: Another one: What is going on here? The costumes are inflatable – think “walking bouncy castle” with an on-board battery-operated fan. One company that makes these costumes: Walkaround.com If you poke around in the video gallery at Walkaround.com, you [...]
Glass blowing is one of those things that people have been doing for thousands of years. According to This page, the invention of glass blowing coincided with the start of the Roman empire around the first century BCE. , Today they still do it using many of the same techniques. These two videos give you [...]
The BBC has a set of free language courses in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, etc. at: BBC Languages They include lessons, flash animations, pronunciation, etc. You can supplement it by jumping into YouTube or Google with a search phrase like “Learn Spanish”. For example, “Learn Spanish” on YouTube yields: Several more videos are [...]
Creepy: School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools’ administrators, who have used [...]
Chuck and Josh discuss five of the most bizarre experiments ever undertaken by governments, from transplanted puppy heads to Cold War psychics, in this episode.
Core i3 takes on Athlon II…and everything else, including a Pentium 4 – “Coming up with a way to characterize a major comparison of desktop processors like this one isn’t always easy. Since our initial review of Intel’s Clarkdale processors, the desktop CPU market has shifted in a number of ways both big and small. [...]
You asked: How do cell phones work from the ocean? — Cathy, Washington, Ill. Marshall Brain Answered: The thing about a cell phone is that it has to be inside a cell in order for it to work. In the middle of a cell is a cell phone tower, and it might provide coverage for [...]
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