I always find it amazing that a) a genius long ago discovered a way to start a fire, b) that someone else discovered cooking, and c) that we significantly inflected their own evolution as a result of those two things. Not only is our knee-jerk reaction to touching something hot wired into the spinal cord, but the…

I've always objected to the exclamation point in Yahoo!'s name. It feels like a cheap trick to make any publication discussing them sound overjoyed. For example, when I saw this headline in my RSS reader I thought the writer was excited about a new home page for the iPad.

@daveinmn: Wow, that's a damn good idea - you may have solved the whole problem there. Put the whole computer in the tablet part, and provide a study hinge that connects it to a keyboard "peripheral", turning it into a netbook. It would need a kickstand, but what you're describing is precisely what I want.

Oh! Sorry, not THOSE Jonas Brothers - Rick and Jimmy Jonas, crack jQuery developers, I'll shoot you their contact info.

I want to see a competing commercial with three people - one reading a tablet, one reading a Kindle, and one reading a book. The table and Kindle users try to out-smug each other, after which the book reader gets up and moves to a different lounge chair.

@touchitgently: No. He will have proven that a small group of psychopaths will react violently to burning the Quran, just as a small group of psychopaths destroyed the world trade center. I don't believe that small group is representative of the world's Muslims. That most Americans do think so is what's so…

@dallasmay: I love Of Mice and Men, I was just surprised to see it mentioned in apparently more than a couple profiles.

I was surprised to see Of Mice and Men listed as a popular term (Latinos).

Very cool, and from the comments it sounds like it guesses based on the most common statistically matching web content. That's a guess on my part, but if true it means that you are being given a preview of what the entire web would say, on average, and given a choice to go with that average or deviate from it on a…

@Sora57: Tell me about it - I thought I was looking into a mirror.

@nootron: Last time I invoked latin cum in my tease I was arrested.

I have no need for it, but I want one. But I have no need for it.

Just installed the pro version. Does the job.

Google voice is scarier.

Google Voice has scared me from the beginning. The ability to accurately and efficiently store phone call information as text means that the content of the world's phone calls can now be feasibly archived and searched. For someone with access it makes spying trivial, and more importantly, it can be done after the…

I got a large dresser up a long flight of stairs with my brother by slowly rolling it end over end. Took about 1 minute and it was quite easy, because we could stand upright and just push forwards and upwards.

At last, the popcorn trick from Real Genius is no longer science fiction.

I prefer Android because I'm a software developer with a Linux laptop, and I don't want to buy a Mac just to be able to compile my app. With Android there's zero barrier of entry for software hobbyists and independent developers other than knowledge, and that makes it much more inviting a playground to me than iOS.

Heaven has free Wi-Fi.

The heartbeat and activity information could be quite interesting to iOS advertisers.