I'm not saying the gap doesn't exist, but it's never been explained to me where it comes from. I've only ever worked service-level jobs where it's very clear that everyone is treated equally and badly. (You can't pay less than minimum wage.) Does this gap account for differences in salary due to women taking time off…

Microsoft made a camera for people with Alzheimer's called SenseCam. It's now made by a different company called Vicon.

I had a similar experience when hearing back from Apple's engineering recently, also relayed through an AppleCare. To try to make it a short story, QuickTime 10.2 in Mountain Lion has a really reduced feature set compared to older versions (for example, no recording to anything but the boot disk, files are not…

I wonder if there will some day be a way to record both yourself and your interactions from a distance, the way a reality TV show is filmed rather than filming only outward at what you see, and you could go back and look at your life from that perspective at any particular moment. Not everyone can have a reality TV…

I think everyone has had the thought several times in their lives that a new piece of technology is going to keep them exercising. I know for myself it's not true.

Do you really believe that anyone can understand the significance or lack thereof of this patent based on a Gizmodo article? I know enough to say I don't know enough to have an opinion on this patent. I'm not sure if Gizmodo knows that much.

Hehe. I meant to say in every direction into the Universe, which I guess is like 360 degrees on steroids. I don't know what you call that, but if you were to shoot information out from points approaching an infinite number of positions on the surface of a sphere. Although, one thing I don't know about the Universe is…

I'm a really nutty person, and I record a lot of my thoughts and sort of save everything, basically the digital version of a packrat. I don't have physical clutter, but I have hard drives filled with journals, thoughts, musings, etc. It's pretty OCD actually, this need to record thoughts, but it's an OCD I enjoy. Well…

They should start with the illegal child sexual abuse within their own religion that they hide (and shun the children as a result of), and also with the legal circumcision practice where the mohel sucks the blood from the just mutilated penis, which has caused several babies in New York City to die from herpes. When…

This is a great lesson to kids that you should wait until you're financially stable, with at least a few billion under your belt, before tying the knot. Granted he's only the 29th richest person in the world, but at least they have a little something to fall back on during trying times.

You could buy vibrators from the Sears catalog in 1918:

I need a new milk cos I am super low on testosterone, and supposedly soy milk increases estrogen, which makes me wonder if it's hurting my testosterone levels.