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Name your tabs

When I’m at work, I always have between three and five browser tabs open. Partly because my job and the internet are, like, totally best buds. But also because I enjoy the web as a diversion every so often when my work involves sitting at a computer more or less all day. So today, just [...]

A twit indeed

I recently started a new job, working for a full-service creative firm. I’m doing some communications planning, some client management, some art direction, and some actual writing. It’s ideal! Or rather, it will be. This is only my second day, but I’m already up to my face in research, particularly on leveraging social networking into [...]

A whiter shade of Palin

For those of you who don’t know, Sarah Palin is the Governor-of-Alaska-cum-Republican-vice-presidential-nominee for the forthcoming election in the US. She’s also incredibly dumb. Like, staggeringly so. Her responses to interview questions are so utterly devoid of any sort of actual detail or knowledge, it worries me that her over-the-top dumbness will somehow cripple the minds [...]

Security Shenannies

I came across this little gem at BoingBoing.net. Seems the US Department of Homeland Security is going to use machines to read your mind before they let you board a plane: MALINTENT, the brainchild of the cutting-edge Human Factors division in Homeland Security’s directorate for Science and Technology, searches your body for non-verbal cues that [...]