I had a math teacher in college who would wager a six pack (of soda) every class. Someone would invariable take up the bet. Class size was roughly 30 and he had been doing this for 24 classes. I'm guessing he was ahead on the whole bet.

I propagated this myth just last week, happily. Like I happily tell my kids that Santa brought toys for Christmas on his big sled. Myths are more human than science, sometimes that's good and sometimes that's not.

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Looking for an easy way to import G+ images to google docs.

Once upon a time, orientation of the power supply with the respect to the case was issue.

1) all the normal wedding photography stuff - systems for keeping track of memory, battery backups, etc.

Simple two-step process. Everytime he does something out-of-bounds. Relay to your friends the facts of what he did. Continue, rinse, repeat. When you've had enough, hang in there for a bit more. Then, tell your friends that you love them very much, but that you won't be at any events where he is at because your…

Cargo net and some planter hooks, hang it high in the corner, easy to store, easy to retrieve, off the floor. I had one and the only reason that it has been deflated and relegated to a box was it's size. Absolutely great exercise with a lot of variety, just make sure you get the right size ball for your body and if…

syncing your to-dos fo today and tomorrow easy

Anything Summer Glau, Joss Whedon or not, gets my auto-purchase.

the link to the article goes to [dx] which Chrome can't seem to find.

Skype was a desperate purchase, an example that the cash position they have is being used not to advance their programming but to buy their way back to vitality.

"Its strange that your opinion of MS leading, but having less of a lead, is dying and anything not leading is dying. How does that work?."

Or you could get a Chromebook and boot in less than 10 seconds. Or you could grab a book and be up and running in about 3...

The guy in the infographic reminds me of the claymation Hotels.com commercial guy, who is smug.

Let me explain. Microsoft has been passed by Apple and IBM (occasionally) in terms of market cap. While still hugely profitable, tell me which of their products lead? Not search though Bing is doing fine. Email, no, but they have more users. OS? More companies are using XP than have upgraded. Vista was a bomb.…

This Facebook blocking google and google offering a Facebook status updates from within Google + are the same kind of walled gardens that had AOL fail. Teaming up with a dying Microsoft is another bad sigh. The feature set is fundamentally the same since release. Facebook has had venture capital and 500 million…

but, but, but... lol. Thanks anyways. I can wait, even though I don't want to. =(

Sci-fi robots playing the sci-fi music of the sci-fi shows that popularized the sci-fi robots. Yep! It has happened.