The Rigged-Up Net

After living with PalmOne’s latest creation for a few weeks, I’ve given serious thought to hanging up on it too. A Month With the Treo 650

Evidentally, I have a fan! 🙂 One of my favorite parts of the weekday shows are when Richard Yoo is on. (My apologies for bad spelling on his name.) Poll RE: D Lawrence Please vote.

A taste for meat prompted early humans to wean their children at a young age. The idea explains why we now wean our infants years earlier than other great apes. Taste for meat made humans early weaners

Mass-market hoteliers are finally waking up to a fact that frequent travelers have long known: The bed matters. Marriott’s fresh look puts bedding concerns to rest

They’ve never met a padlock – or six-pin paracentric cylinder – they couldn’t crack. Live, from the lock-picking championship of the world. The Lock Busters

TiVo ToGo MPEG2 Decrypting http://www.evillabs.net/tivo/

Men and women use different brain areas to achieve similar IQ results, UCI study finds Intelligence in men and women is a gray and white matter

The government has a plan to help speed the arrival of digital TV and let you dump your cable box. It’s called CableCard, and it’s poised to come out from the wings, if not take center stage, in the cable TV market this year. FAQ: CableCard? What’s that?

Scientists at Okayama University in Japan have rather agreeably discovered that unidentified compounds in lager and stout may help to prevent DNA damage leading to cancer. Beer fights cancer: official

I got new tires… Goodyear Eagle F1 GS-D3 – all the way around. The good news is that they ride much firmer than my old Firestone Firehawk SZ50 EP’s, but I’ve only driven on them for 15mins or so. The bad news is that the installers used an impact-wrench and destroyed my locking lug nut […]

New European pedestrian safety rules could spell doom for those menacing beasts, winged ladies and interlocking letters that are among the few remaining car hood ornaments Classic hood ornaments cave to safety concerns

Some of the sharpest minds on Wall Street are betting that you’ll make more money in metals than Microsoft the next few years. The new bull market is in stuff, not stocks, they say. Real assets create real riches

Atari’s CIO looks at Linux as historic cost-saving opportunity. Game Maker Atari Now Playing With Linux

Managed Web host Rackspace Managed Hosting Europe (rackspace.co.uk) announced on Thursday that it has awarded Approved Reseller status to independent UK network service provider Connectology. Connectology to Resell Rackspace Europe

Flash storage manufacturers SanDisk and M-Systems are slated to announce Friday at CES a new USB standard called U3, which enables users to carry, store and launch applications directly from a USB flash drive without installation. ICQ will be one of the first adopters of the platform, and the instant messaging software will come enbedded […]

This document describes how malicious or unwanted comments (‘comment spam’) affect weblogs, the techniques spammers use to abuse weblogs, and the tactics that can be used to prevent and defend against these attacks. Also included is a review of the strengths and weaknesses of each tactic, instructions for implementing them on your weblog and ones […]

Consumers scrambling for sexy new flat-panel televisions may want to tune in to this less-publicized feature of the trendy boxes: They don’t deliver pictures as clearly as traditional tube TVs do. Flat-panel TVs can’t topple tubes–just yet

Rackspace Managed Hosting, the fastest-growing managed hosting provider, today announced that it has signed a hosting agreement with Atari Inc. (Nasdaq:ATAR), one of the world’s largest and best-known developers of interactive entertainment. Rackspace also announced a new business alliance with Internap (AMEX:IIP), the market leader for intelligent route-control solutions, and together the companies will provide […]

The service will also allow recorded content to be pushed to mobile devices, such as two new personal media players from FIC and GoVideo. While the new players can connect directly to DVD recorders and other devices through their integrated USB ports to download movies, the players will apparently need to use a PC as […]

So you just bought a superb ultra-flat 25″ LCD monitor, but it looks like there are a few ‘spots’ on it. Depending on how many and it’ll mean return to the vendor or live with it. Or you could be about to buy one in a store and want to make sure there aren’t any […]

My god, of all the poeple with the same name as me… why did this guy have to make such ugly things?! [sigh] http://www.rakuten.co.jp/coolstyle/486445/526321/