Some excellent information here . See also Black Viper's article . ... Read the full post ... Read more

" Lifehacker's Complete Guide to Windows 7 ". Several dozen annotated links. " 7 free Windows 7 tweaking utilities ". " 21 Ways to Customize Windows 7 ". " Six free antivirus programs made for your Windows 7 system ". " Ninite E ... Read the ... Read more

Honest, I'm not going out of my way to look for it. It just seems as though there's more of it these days. Louis Menand, Bass Professor of English at Harvard : Weirdly, the less social authority a profession enjoys, the more restrictive the barriers to entry and the more rigid the ... Read more

I'll let the student newspaper tell it : The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) has added a new stipulation to its guest policy that prohibits any sex act in a dorm room while one's roommate is present. The stipulation further states that any sexual activity in the room ... Read more

Some people on one side of the political spectrum--I won't say who, but let's just say they're on the more sinister side--don't approve of "Corporate Food" and "Big Food". They especially dislike big grocery chains. Well, in New York City, the residents are fi ... Read more

There may soon be a simple blood test to screen for colon cancer . Doing away with colonoscopies would be a nice thing. ... Read the full post ... Read more

Not that he's all that optimistic : “I'll probably vote Conservative. I mean, we're in a terrible state whichever way you look at it, socially, financially and politically, so just give the other guy a chance. “I don't know what Cameron's going to do, but in the end ... Read more

So I saw the above headline and I just had to look. Google is supposed to be stuffed with really smart people. The article quotes Peter Norvig, "Google's director of research, former Google director of search quality and former head of the Computational Sciences division at the NASA Ame ... Read more

I was cleaning out a closet the other day and I came across my high school copy of Slaughterhouse Five . I liked the book--there are two great scenes in the book, among my favorites in fiction--but what I really liked were the two review quotes on the cover. Because of them, for a few months, I ... Read more

Lamar Alexander : . . . some forward-looking colleges like Hartwick are rethinking the old way of doing things and questioning decades-old assumptions about what a college degree means. For instance, why does it have to take four years to earn a diploma? This fall, 16 first-year students and ... Read more