Why We Worry About the Wrong Things

Why, indeed, do we worry most about the things we shouldn't? This TIME article might help enlighten us:"Shadowed by peril as we are, you would think we'd get pretty good at distinguishing the risks likeliest to do us in from the ones that are statistical long shots. But you...

Integrating The Online With The Offline

Imagine.  Imagine automatically opening a JPG with Flickr.  Imagine opening a Word document, and getting ajaxWrite.  Imagine making Gmail your default client.  Well, you can!  Here's how (note: mostly only works with Windows XP.  I'm REALLY...

The Future of Then is Now

"t’s 1732 and you live in middle England. One night, while downing some ale at the local tavern, you remark to your friends that the last twelve years have been crazy. Much that you now do on a daily basis - things that seem difficult to imagine living without - had...

The Improbability of God

"By way of attacking his position, the atheist often hears the line from theists that, “You can’t prove there’s no such thing as god.” The wholly logical response, of course, is to admit the theist’s point. However, it is important to note that the...

The Difference Between a Virus, Worm and Trojan Horse

"The most common blunder people make when the topic of a computer virus arises is to refer to a worm or Trojan horse as a virus. While the words Trojan, worm and virus are often used interchangeably, they are not the same. Viruses, worms and Trojan Horses are all malicious...