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Inside the Box » Blog Archive » Solid State Hard Disk Drives (SSDs) Part 2
“SSD technology is new. It is undergoing growing pains, and while Lenovo took a lot of heat from our customers for waiting so long to ship an SSD option, we did this for one primary reason. IT’S YOUR DATA and it […]

Babies See Pure Color, but Adults Peer Through Prism of Language | Wired Science from Wired.com
“As an adult, color categorization is influenced by linguistic categories. It differs as the language differs,” said Kay, who is renowned for his studies on the ways that different cultures classify colors. He cited recent research on the ability of […]

Chocolate. Mint. Beer. Amazingly good - mark my words.

Talk about Christmas spirit - admirable, if odd.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shoppers got a Christmas Eve surprise on Monday when a pair of brothers handed out $100 bills at a mall on Long Island, New York.
Police responded to a call from security staff at the Sunrise Mall in the town of Massapequa, concerned that […]

As I’m interfacing with colleagues in England, India, Asia-Pacific and I’ll of course be in New Zealand for a while, I was looking for a convenient world clock interface to help me keep track of time zones.
I just needed something simple that would stay out of the way until I wanted to see it, that […]

 
The aircraft sustained damage when it somehow broke free of its parking chocks during engine run-ups around 5 pm, local time. News photos taken at the scene show the aircraft’s nose rammed through a blast deflection wall.
PICTURE: Etihad A340-600 jumps chocks, hits wall; 5 injured

Raleigh — The Highway Patrol is launching another crackdown on speeding drivers.
Troopers will target interstates and major-four lane highways across the state as part of Operation Slow Down, which kicks off Tuesday. Troopers said there will also be increased patrols on secondary roads.
The crackdown comes just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday, when thousands of […]

Lucky SOB. I couldn’t eat at McDonald’s off my interest… 
Drew Carey has been living a comfortable life of semi-retirement. In a couple of months, he could be Regis Philbin.

The Cleveland native was just selected as Bob Barker’s replacement on the daytime game “The Price is Right,” and next week he will debut as the host […]

I found this link via Churbuck’s never-ending pearls of wisdom, a short guide on writing with style by Kurt Vonnegut. There are lots of good nuggets in there, mainly the kind of stuff where you say “Yeah, that makes sense and I guess I knew that, but it didn’t click until I just read it.”
The passage […]