http://site.planet-38.com/blog1 Things of Interest Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:02:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Simply outrageous. read more | digg story http://site.planet-38.com/blog1/2008/11/21/16-secrets-the-restaurant-industry-doesnt-want-you-to-know/ TOKYO -- The American poet Theodore Roethke called it 'the inexorable sadness of pencils.' It's the desolation of time lost and dreams forsaken while sitting in an office.read more | digg story http://site.planet-38.com/blog1/2008/11/21/kafka-of-the-cubicle/ There should be a mandate on how long airlines can keep their passengers idled before taxiing back to the gate. (Just in time for your holiday travels.)read more | digg story http://site.planet-38.com/blog1/2008/11/21/the-tarmac%e2%80%99s-madding-crowds/ Buying any sort of high-tech product involves risks not faced with most other purchases. The sweater you get for yourself probably won't cost dramatically less next year or be replaced in stores by a vastly upgraded Sweater 3.0, but your new laptop, camera or phone can become overpriced or obsolete... ... http://site.planet-38.com/blog1/2008/11/20/more-gamble-than-gift-this-holiday-seasons-high-tech-duds/ Nvidia today unveiled a workstation it calls the Telsa Personal Supercomputer at the annual Supercomputing 08 show here. The Tesla sports 960 cores, almost 4 teraflops of performance and costs less than $9,995. It achieves that speed and price by using four graphics processing units (GPUs), each of which has ... http://site.planet-38.com/blog1/2008/11/19/thanks-to-gamers-the-desktop-supercomputer-arrives/ This "old skool" CSS hack analyzes which sites you've visited. For instance, if you've been to Digg or Slashdot recently it almost certainly means you're male. Test it for yourself and post the results in the comments below. I was 92% chance of being male. And..... they were right. At ... http://site.planet-38.com/blog1/2008/11/19/sites-can-now-know-your-gender-by-using-sneaky-css-hack/ Men with facial scars are more attractive to women seeking short-term relationships, scientists at the University of Liverpool have found. read more | digg story http://site.planet-38.com/blog1/2008/11/19/women-find-scarred-men-attractive-when-looking-for-a-fling/ In a letter to Congress, federal scientists said that officials ignored their concerns and approved unsafe or ineffective medical devices. (Caveat emptor.)read more | digg story http://site.planet-38.com/blog1/2008/11/18/fda-scientists-accuse-agency-officials-of-misconduct/ Wow. How'd they do it? Smartcard company Sagem Orga and BlueSky Positioning say they've collaborated to put GPS capability into a conventional tiny cell phone SIM card.read more | digg story http://site.planet-38.com/blog1/2008/11/18/gps-built-into-sim-card-gives-any-phone-gps/ The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory plans to examine whether the old way of telling stories — particularly those delivered to the millions on screen — is in serious trouble. (Evolve or die, but when the bottom line is profit over artistic accomplishment, what do you do? What do ... http://site.planet-38.com/blog1/2008/11/18/saving-the-story-the-film-version/