RT @Oatmeal: What your email address says about your computer skills

LOL "why are there so few girl engineers?" /via @geekgirldiva

Time-waster of the day: Sim Web 2.0. It’s a little flash game that automatically generates a name for your Web 2.0 startup, like Twitcast or Youcrunch, a press clip, and a list of things to do to build the company:

This device, portrayed as a harmless product of science, is obviously designed to introduce our children to witchcraft and sorcery.

reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher ... Each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA.

Years after the arrival of the hands-free headset, many of us still cross the road to avoid someone who seems to be talking to an imaginary friend

... sit on the train listening to upbeat economic propaganda and partisan sniping being delivered in the president's conspiratorial, one-moron-to-another voice...

The sound is designed to so irritate young people that after several minutes, they cannot stand it and go away.

TV-B-Gone