August, 2010

  1. Fan Death

    Apparently, there is a widespread belief in South Korea that sleeping all night with a fan blowing directly on a person can be fatal. The Wikipedia entry and Snopes.com entry about fan death are fascinating looks at how easily urban legends gain traction even in contemporary, technological societies. No other culture appears to regard its…

  2. Unicomp Space Saver Keyboard

    Back when I was a kid, we didn’t have these crappy mushy USB keyboards. We had keyboards that took up most of the desktop, weighed 15 pounds and sounded like a dot matrix printer going full bore when you were typing on it. And we liked it! Seriously, I type about 150 WPM and detest…

  3. WTF Indeed, Glenn

    Surfing the web a few weeks ago, I ran across this bizarre entry on Glenn Reynolds’ Instapundit blog. Now, personally, I would have thought that Reynolds would be opposed entirely to naming buildings after terrorists, but apparently not so much: HMM: University of Texas regents take KKK organizer’s name off dorm. Does that mean that…

  4. Frustrations Over Collecting Mattel’s DCUC Line

    Phillip Reed recently vented his frustrations at attempting to collect Mattel’s DC Universe Classics line of action figures, I want to love the DC Universe Classics* series of toys, but too many times the frustration of finding a specific figure is just more than I’m willing to deal with so I basically just ignore the…