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Priceless, just priceless. PALO ALTO, CA--All 1,472 employees of Facebook, Inc. reportedly burst out in uncontrollable laughter Wednesday following Albuquerque resident Jason Herrick's attempts to protect his personal information from exploitation on the social-networking site. "Look, he's clicking 'Friends Only' for his e-mail address. Like that's going to make a difference!" howled infrastructure manager Evan Hollingsworth, tears streaming down his face, to several of his doubled-over coworkers. "Oh, sure, by all means, Jason, 'delete' that photo. Man, this is so rich." According to…
As you've surely heard by now, on christmas day, some idiot attempted to blow up an airplane by stuffing his underwear full of explosives and then lighting his crotch on fire. There's been a ton of coverage of this - most of which takes the form of people running around wetting their pants in terror. One thing which I've noticed, though, is that one aspect of this whole mess ties in to one of my personal obsessions: scale. We humans are really,really lousy at dealing with big numbers. We just absolutely have a piss-poor ability to really comprehend numbers, or to take what we know, and put…
Grauniad reports Iceland to be fast tracked for EU membership. We'll see, public could swing either way on the issue in the interval. Real problem is the fish. If the grounds are opened to EU vessels and Iceland loses control of the catch allotment, then the fish will all die. Yup, this has hit the Icelandic papers also. Current spin is how good it'd be for the EU - as good as finding a whale...