What Your Email Address Says About You

via Gawker

As reported by Brian Moylan — While what comes before the @-symbol may include the letters and characters you picked out, what comes after it still says a whole lot about you. A new study breaks down the types of people that use different types of free email services.

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Tracking The Astounding Pace Of Digital Storage

Thanks, Boing Boing! This is just plain freaky: Ivan Smith maintains a page tracking the price of digital storage over the years. The chart showing the drop in price is astounding: It’s one of technology’s least appreciated … Read More >>

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Criterion Collection: Top 10 Lists

via Boing Boing

Great Boing Boing post by my dear friend and co-conspirator, David Pescovitz, on Criterion: ” I love film and dig dates to the art house but I’m woefully lacking in my knowledge of classic and “important” cinema. Of … Read More >>

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TOM THE DANCING BUG: Charlie Sheen In “Rhymes With WINNING”!

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iPad Approved By FAA To Replace Paper Flight Charts And Maps

Via engadget:

The Federal Aviation Administration is moving with the times, it would seem, as it has just granted the first approval for the use of iPads instead of paper charts for informing airline pilots while on duty. There are already a number of EFB (electronic flight bag) devices in use, however the iPad is by far the cheapest and most portable one that’s been validated yet. Read the entire story on engadget here.

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My First Dictionary

OK, this is, like, totally incendiary.
“Corrupting young minds, one word at a time?” Brilliant!!

First time author Ross Horsley tackles the challenge of teaching young minds with a playfully disturbing dictionary. An … Read More >>

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Valentine’s Day Cards: Science = Awesome

 

I’m always at a loss for just the right card, although I’ve collected vintage postcards and weird Florida Tourist-Alligator Farm-Marineland stuff  for years that usually works in a pinch… this collection is a bit better, even though they lack the often-creepy Dadaism of 1980s Super Friends valentines. Check out the science-themed Valentine’s Day … Read More >>

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