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yeah, so here’s some strange news: email and instant messaging might be wicked harmful to your brain, according to a recent study by glenn wilson (and some others with the same research interests) at king’s college of london…they did this study recently, got a good write up of the whole thing in the guardian, but [...]

here’s something that will send shivers through the cube farms, where veal pens fatten residents with a lotta take out: hyperactive technology’s ‘ ‘hyperactive bob’ software predicts with 90 percent accuracy what kind of food a drive-thru customer is gonna order by looking at the car as it pulls up for drive-thru service…you can read [...]

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ever heard of this company geodesic or their product mundu messenger? …well, first read this bit, courtesy of their product page: “Mundu Messenger is an “Interoperable Instant Messaging” tool that lets users communicate with one another instantly…across other services including AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo…combines valuable features…URL transfer…cross-conferencing (a world first), easy portability, cross platform [...]

the fun loving folks over at new scientist have always run some very entertaining material in their ‘last page‘ colums…recently, they did a round up of some of the most stupid warning labels - which i now feel compelled to share with you because they’ve got almost zero to do with anything..what really frightens [...]