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This article could be titled '5 Reasons Why Every Person Should Get Married'. None of those benefits are specific to entrepreneurs. And marriage clearly isn't for every person, nor…

I tried both and have decided to go with the Kindle. My wife and I both thought the glitchy lag between page turns on the Nook was a deal breaker. It was far less noticeable on the…

The problem with this is reading a 400 page book on a tablet is a problem for those of use who experience eye strain. The refresh rate and the backlight really fatigue my eyes afte…

Here are a couple of scientific articles from two of the more well respected science organizations in the world. There are a plethora more, though it's hard to wade through the opi…

You're right. I never noticed because I always use the mouse scroll wheel for that. My #1 biggest Bing image search gripe is middle click doesn't work in Chrome for opening in a ne…

Not active for my Google yet, but looking at the article, it seems to be a set of changes they really had to make to keep up with Bing. Bing's UI for image searches is really hands…

Interesting list. It's clearly not trying to sensationalize, or the Brown Tree Snake would have been higher. The explanation of the methodology at the top is good. A little more de…

Not quite. IE8 is making huge gains in market share, but almost entirely at the expense of IE6 and IE7. The overall IE marketshare is holding somewhat steady at 60%. I think what y…

I get a good deal of spam from any unfiltered accounts I post as name@domain.com. In fact the only Nigerian scams I ever received came from doing that. name[AT]domain.com is an eas…

You can be a youth member and be gay as long as you're willing to live as a second class citizen, i.e. not avow that you're homosexual or hold a youth leadership position. They don…

I can't wait to see the Richard Stallman government files in 50 years. Would it be FBI or Homeland Security do you think?

One successful example of this he doesn't mention is games. Several large-ish MMO's basically operate on this principle (Adventure Quest, Dungeon Runners and Runes of Magic to name…

U-Haul has some right ideas when it comes to their website: You Searched for: uhaulsucks.com WHOIS results for uhaulsucks.com Registrant: U-Haul International U-Haul International …

Rendered in Times New Roman. Awesome.

Man, with VLC Player has been ready for prime time, I haven't downloaded a codec in years.

You might want to work through some ASP.NET MVC tutorials using your language of choice before jumping into Django or Rails. That will give you an easier entry point to learning MV…

I would almost argue source control period isn't for the non-technical user, but I could see some fringe cases where training non-techies to use it would be useful. But git is DEFI…

I'm saying obesity among America's poor is a real problem and there are studies that support that claim that come from somewhere other than a conservative think tank dedicated to k…

The two aren't really related. It's not like Microsoft was Walmart, coming into towns and destroying mom and pop drugstores that had been in business 50 years and whose owners were…

Not to mention there's a valid point to be made but linking to heritage.org 'research' undermines your validity right off the bat.

I think Gates is a little more concerned with eradicating disease and hunger in third world countries at this point in his life. I'm sure he would prefer M$ weren't so far behind i…

He's a blogger, can you blame him? He got my click from his Twitter feed with it, because I was interested to see a non-IT guy's take on the recent spate of Apple-bashing. Yglesias…

Yeah, Yglesias is a super smart guy, but he's just way off on this one.

I also agree 100% with him, I just meant that Apple will never allow that to happen. Just like I think Microsoft SHOULD open source NT and XP, and that will never happen either.