American Lawbreaking

At the federal prosecutor's office in the Southern District of New York, the staff, over beer and pretzels, used to play a darkly humorous game. Junior and senior prosecutors would sit around, and someone would name a random celebrity—say, Mother Theresa or John Lennon.
It would then be up to the junior prosecutors to figure out a plausible crime for which to indict him or her. The crimes were not usually rape, murder, or other crimes you'd see on Law & Order but rather the incredibly broad yet obscure crimes that populate the U.S. Code like a kind of jurisprudential minefield: Crimes like "false statements" (a felony, up to five years), "obstructing the mails" (five years), or "false pretenses on the high seas" (also five years). The trick and the skill lay in finding the more obscure offenses that fit the character of the celebrity and carried the toughest sentences. The, result, however, was inevitable: "prison time."
American lawbreaking

Social Network Spamming

Lately, I get so many invites on various social networks, that its becoming a part time job, just responding to the various stupidity. Most of the friend requests are from people I don't know and who don't know me. I often respond, "How do I know you?" I get three follow-ups from there.
Social Network Spamming

Horror shows in the whites of your eyes

A horrified look on your face is a sure-fire way of grabbing someone's attention, according to US researchers who've measured how fast people process facial expressions.
They believe fearful facial expressions go straight to the alarm centre of the brain known as the amygdala, cuing humans to potential threats.
Horror shows in the whites of your eyes

Urine is found to grow big Cabbages

Kuopio, Finland researchers have discovered that human urine is better than commercial fertilizers in growing bigger cabbages.
Urine is found to grow big Cabbages

Query Nuclear Explosions Database

Geoscience Australia maintains a database of nuclear explosions with the location, time and size of explosions around the world since 1945. You can query this database by filling in the form below.
Query Nuclear Explosions Database

Make Crystal Clear Ice!

How to make crystal cear ice without any special equipment! It is super easy! You will be surprised!
make crystal clear ice!

Vatican publish Knights Templar documents

The Vatican has published a slew of centuries-old documents about the Knights Templar, a Christian military order that operated in the Middle Ages and remains a source of endless fascination for conspiracy theorists, Holy Grail seekers, occultists, and Dan Brown readers.
Vatican publish Knights Templar documents

Nobel Prize Award Laureates, 2007; Nobel Award Database

Several ready reference links from the Nobel Foundation.
Nobel Prize Award Laureates, 2007; Nobel Award Database

Cheat DVD Regional Encoding

You might think a DVD is just a DVD, and that it will play in any DVD player. Unfortunately, you're wrong. The film industry has segregated the world into seven "regions," and DVDs are generally encoded for playback in only one region.
Cheat DVD Regional Encoding

8 Simple Ways to Enjoy Life Every Day

This article is targeted at the professional stuck in the 9 to 5 grind who longs for the weekend and, in the process, has given up on trying to find pleasure in the ordinary experiences we have every day.
8 Simple Ways to Enjoy Life Every Day

Use eBay

Ahhhh, eBay… the ultimate worldwide flea market. Everyone from Midwestern grannies to jobless goatee-ed neo-hippies (as if there are any other kind) are in on the action, peddling their wares in the wee hours of the morning. Chances are if you want to buy, some poor sucker is selling, and if you want to sell, there's some poor sucker willing to buy.
We know what you're thinking: How do I avoid being the aforementioned "poor sucker"? Well, we're here to save your sorry ass. But first we have to make one thing clear: This article will assume you have at least a basic understanding of how eBay works.
Use eBay

Too Sick to Work?

What’s a good enough reason to call in sick? If you wake up feeling sneezy, sleepy, dopey and grumpy, as if you turned into nearly all of Snow White’s dwarves overnight, you might be wondering whether you should tough it out or just stay home. Here’s some advice on how to tell when your symptoms warrant staying at home – or when you have to roll out of bed and get to work.
Too Sick to Work?

Airline meal ‘used to kill activist’

The former head of Indonesia’s national airline faces 20 years in jail over the killing of an outspoken human rights activist whose in-flight meal was laced with a massive dose of arsenic. (I'll fly Qantas, thanks!)
Airline meal ‘used to kill activist’

Swiss Ice Storm

Nice (cold) photos...
Swiss ice storm

Gore climate film's 'nine errors'

A High Court judge who ruled on whether climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, could be shown in schools said it contains "nine scientific errors".
Gore climate film's 'nine errors'

Cheaper Running Shoes win comfortably

Expensive running shoes might look flash, but cost does not necessarily buy better cushioning, says a team of UK medical engineers. In fact, cheaper might do it better when it comes to absorbing shock.
Cheaper running shoes win comfortably

Migrant Statistics News, Oct 2007

Migrant Statistics News is the half-yearly newsletter of the National Migrant Statistics Unit. The newsletter highlights developments in migrant and ethnicity related statistics, and provides relevant information for researchers, policy makers, service providers and others with an interest in this field.
Migrant Statistics News, Oct 2007

How Much Email?

It almost seems like there are fashions in email. We’ve spent a lot of time talking about handling email stress or even resorting to the nuclear option of email bankruptcy. Most of our fascination with email (and ways to handle it) seems to be driven by the common perception that we’re drowning under an avalanche of the stuff. Indeed, in some circles it’s fashionable to boast about the size of one’s inbox or the number of hundreds of messages that one gets per day.
How Much Email?

More on Excel

You may have recently read of an issue in Excel 2007 involving calculation of numbers around 65,535 where Excel 2007 would return a value of 100,000 instead of 65,535. Excel incorrectly displays the result of a calculation in 12 very specific cases. The key here is that the issue is actually not in the calculation itself (the result of the calculation stored in Excel’s memory is correct), but only in the result that is shown in the sheet.

You can get more detail on the problem here:
Microsoft Excel : Calculation Issue Update

Microsoft have just released an update for both Excel 2007 and Excel Services in Office SharePoint Server 2007 that fixes this problem.
Description of the Excel 2007 hotfix package: October 9, 2007
Excel Services in Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: October 9, 2007

For all the latest information on Excel and Excel Services make sure you regularly visit the Excel team blog:
Microsoft Excel Team Blog

HDTVs: Australia to Ban All Plasmas

If a revised Australian energy rating guide gets passed, then all plasma televisions would be banned from sale by 2011. That's right, all plasmas and even many power-hungry LCDs would be taken off store shelves due to their high energy consumption. But listen to this, it gets worse.
HDTVs: Australia to Ban All Plasmas

24 Things You Can Do With an Index Card

YES YES YES!
24 Things You Can Do With an Index Card

Excel number formatting problem fixed

Microsoft has released a patch for Excel 2007 to fix a bug that caused certain numbers to be displayed incorrectly.
Excel number formatting problem fixed

24 Warning Signs You Cannot Afford To Ignore

These common aches and ailments could very well be nothing. Or something far, far worse. Here are 24 warning signs that you need to take seriously, and what you should do if you experience them.
24 Warning Signs You Cannot Afford To Ignore

Confusing Words

Here's another site already listed on the Black Stump Words site some time ago. Worth highlighting again.
Confusing Words

Essential Music and Audio Websites

As well as our own listing of sites at Black Stump here is another annotated list.
Essential Music and Audio Websites

10 Most Incredible Things to Do Before You Die

It would cost a pretty penny to engage in most of these activities, but what the heck, you can't take it with you anyway and if you should die in pursuit of completing this list, then you'll have died doing what only a handful of other people have done in their lifetime.
10 Most Incredible Things to Do Before You Die

Optical Illusions and Architecture

Illusions which rely on some form of architecture and all create an effect which deserves a mention.
optical illusions and architecture

Overcoming Shyness

Shyness is rooted in fear — an irrational fear of speaking up and being humiliated or ignored. Why are some people so afraid of speaking out?
Overcoming Shyness

66 Celebrities that Blog

Think evil gossip mongers are the only ones blogging? Think again! Your favorite celebrities are also blogging. Many of them enjoy writing and it’s a great way to keep in touch with their fans.
66 Celebrities that Blog

who.hasfiles Online Storage

Sign up to get a free 100 MB remote drive, accessible via net! You can upgrade to a paid account and get up to 100 GB anytime.
who.hasfiles Online Storage

How to iron a button down shirt in 5 easy steps

Funny thing about men: when it comes to choosing what to wear, you can be just as vain as most women. Surprisingly though, unlike women, most men have no problem wearing those same clothes with the 'just-slept-in-look'.
How to iron a button down shirt in 5 easy steps

Discover the .EDU Underground

Little appreciated outside the world of academia, there are literally thousands of .edu (AU - or edu.au, of course) sites bursting with incredibly useful and interesting information and resources. Most of these sites won't pop up to the surface of the average search engine quest, and so they wait, neglected and underused...until now. Keep reading for a quick tour through the mysterious underground world of .edu.
Discover the .EDU Underground

The Rules of Sarcasm

Sarcasm is so ubiquitous these days, it almost goes unnoticed. The trick is to use sarcasm intelligently, and sparingly.
The Rules of Sarcasm

Ten Terrific Troubleshooting Tricks and Tools

The bad news: PCs have been around for 30 years, and they still find in new and unusual ways to break. The good news: I've discovered a kitbag full of tools that troubleshoot and fix perplexing tech problems.
Ten Terrific Troubleshooting Tricks and Tools

Digitizing records and tapes with Audacity

You've been ripping CDs for years, but what about those dusty cassette tapes in your attic and all that bargain-basement vinyl at used book sales? With Audacity, you can capture those vintage tunes, clean up their sound, and carry them around on your MP3 player.
Audacity is a powerful free cross-platform audio editor. It includes tools such as noise removal filters and automatic track splitting that can speed up the process of turning your antique audio into shiny new MP3s or Oggs.
Digitizing records and tapes with Audacity

Batteries: Revive a Dead Laptop Battery in the Freezer

Looks like a little freezer time can save more than just a dead hard drive: according to this video over at Metacafe, you can also revive a dead laptop battery by freezing it for 14 to 15 hours.
Batteries: Revive a Dead Laptop Battery in the Freezer

Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13

This latest version includes a full installation of the Web browser and the most recent version of Outlook Express, the e-mail client that is included with Internet Explorer.
Download Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13

How to Read a Painting

Art is a great status symbol in modern society and because of that it can be quite intimidating to the casual viewer. For many the first impulse is to blow it off, to see it as a worthless plaything for the rich and boring. This is too bad, not only because art can be a great source of pleasure in our lives, but because even a passing acquaintance with art can enrich and deepen our understanding of the world around us.
How to Read a Painting

Do Try This at Home

Discover the speed of light with a bar of chocolate, why spaghetti always breaks in three places and how ants can survive a switched-on microwave. Our correspondent reveals the amazing appliance of oddball science.
Do try this at home - Times Online

Four Rules to Understand What Makes People Tick

Breaking down human behavior into rules might seem like a gross simplification. But even with the complexities, it is easy to fall into the same mistakes. Many heated fights, lost sales and broken hearts are caused by a few critical errors. If you make the wrong assumptions, you’ve lost before you begin.
Four Rules to Understand What Makes People Tick

7 Rules for Communicating Clearly and Concisely in Email

As email is the prevalent form of communication for many web workers, it’s gotten a lot of attention: how to handle your email, how to empty your inbox, email etiquette, and more.
But perhaps not enough time is spent learning about how to communicate with email. And more specifically, how to communicate clearly and concisely, two crucial aspects of communication that are often overlooked.
7 Rules for Communicating Clearly and Concisely in Email

Photoshopping Masterpieces

A great painting captures a moment in time. But, after the masterpiece is finished, life goes on. Even the most prolific painter couldn't catch every scene as it happened - but now you can.
Photoshopping Masterpieces

Amazing Way to Tie Your Sneakers

Amazing Way to Tie Your Sneakers

Windows Tip: Make a Folder Invisible

By giving a file folder a blank name and blank icon, unless you're specifically looking for it, the folder's existence isn't immediately apparent.
Windows Tip: Make a Folder Invisible

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) : October 2007 Advance Notification

We’ve just posted our Advance Notification for next week’s bulletin release on Tuesday October 9, 2007 at or around 10 a.m. Pacific Time.
A reminder that the information we post is intended to help with your planning for next week, but because it is preliminary information it is subject to change.
The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) : October 2007 Advance Notification

IE7 Update Available for Download

Microsoft has just released an updated version of Internet Explorer 7, with a few new minor features, and broader availability to more users. Windows Genuine Advantage validation is no longer required for the installation of IE 7, and is now accessible to all Windows XP users. Those who are already running IE7 will not get it again through Automatic Updates.
IE7 Update Available for Download

UK gov't to Heathrow: fix your bloody security queues

Flying through Heathrow a lot? It has all the charm of a colonoscopy and all the comfort of being trapped in a cargo container. The lines are like something out of the ninth pit of hell, especially in the Virgin terminal, and the rules about carry-ons and so forth keep getting more and more inhospitable.
UK gov't to Heathrow: fix your bloody security queues

Screensavers - Best Of

We don’t need screensavers any more, however we tend to use them as eye-candy for our coffee breaks. Particularly complex and colourful 3D-screensavers are extremely nice to look at. But also if you’d like to lift your spirit with some calm and relaxing animations screensavers can definitely be just what you are looking for.
Screensavers - Best Of

Yahoo!7 takes the Pulse of Aussie web surfers

Yahoo!7's new Pulse service identifies what Australians are reading, watching and asking.
Yahoo!7 takes the Pulse of Aussie web surfers

One-Hit Wonders: From Hapax to Googlewhacks

The latest edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is a pleasing mix of the old and the new, with musty archaisms sharing the page with the leading edge of English vocabulary. Unlike the full Oxford English Dictionary, however, the Shorter doesn’t take up space with anything too archaic, using 1700 as the arbitrary cutoff date.
One-Hit Wonders: From Hapax to Googlewhacks

Breaking Rules makes your Brain light up

Researchers say they have identified the part of the brain that processes the threat of punishment for flouting social rules.
Breaking rules makes your brain light up

Zimmer's Words Of The Week

Zimmer's Words Of The Week

Aussies 'could become fatter than Americans'

Australians have been warned they could be fatter than Americans by 2020, as the Pedestrian Council urged them to take part in national Walk to Work Day today.
Aussies 'could become fatter than Americans'

5 Things I learned about Personal Growth by Moving

Did you ever have a learning experience after a major change in your life that made you realize you could have learned that same lesson without having gone through the major change?
Obviously the change was a necessary catalyst for the lesson, but it still gives you the opportunity to slap yourself in the forehead and say, "I could have learned this years ago!".
5 Things I learned about Personal Growth by Moving

Marriages, Australia, 2006

Marriages, Australia 2006 provides information on marriages registered in Australia during the 2006 calendar year. Key indicators of marriages at the national and state level are included in the analytical commentary.
Marriages, Australia, 2006

'Phishing' catches Australians online

Alarming numbers of Australians still don't know what the internet scam called 'phishing' is, nor are they adequately protected against it, a Galaxy survey has found.
Phishing is a type of online fraud that tricks people into supplying sensitive information to someone they shouldn't through spoof websites or phony emails, often offering lucrative deals.
'Phishing' catches Australians online

Things to Consider Before Getting Married

Here are a handful of things that have become common themes. So before you say "I Do", make sure you have at least considered these.
Things to Consider Before Getting Married

Who Is Your Visitor? An Average Profile

You never really know who is going to visit your web-site next. You have no idea which configuration will be used, what browser will be installed, which screen resolution will be in use. However, since you’d like to comfort most of your web users, you need to know their habits and the profile of your average visitor — to adapt the design and layout to your users’ needs.
Who Is Your Visitor? An Average Profile

How Well Does Google Translator Cope With Idioms?

Google once boasted that their in-house machine translation efforts are award-winning. However, their internal software still hasn’t been released for all the translation language pairs their offer. The German - English language pair is one such example using an external translation provider.
How Well Does Google Translator Cope With Idioms?

GuerrillaMail - Disposable Temporary E-Mail Address

Guerrilla Mail provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 Minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame.
GuerrillaMail - Disposable Temporary E-Mail Address

Northern Territory, Australia

In Australia the harsh climate and landscape have shaped numerous indigenous languages that are now in real danger of extinction.
Northern Territory, Australia

Winners of 2007 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge

The journal Science and the National Science Foundation have announced the winners of their fifth annual Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.
Winners of 2007 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge

Interesting Elevators

Here are some that may actually be enjoyable to ride.
Interesting Elevators

Strange and Bizarre Odours That Some People Love

There's no accounting for taste, or smell, in this case. Here are six intriguing, strange odours that some people love. Strange and Bizarre Odours That Some People Love

3 Things Your Customers Won’t Tell You … Unless You Ask

When it comes to driving your business, you want to have two magical things happen:
You want your customers to become even better customers
You want those customers to tell people about you.
3 Things Your Customers Won’t Tell You … Unless You Ask

Writing Blunders

It's amazing how many of the same mistakes you see over and over again. Different authors, same flaws.
Writing Blunders

10 Lessons to Teach Your Kids About Money

Teaching kids about money is a controversial thing — no one argues that you should teach them, but the how is a tougher question.
10 Lessons to Teach Your Kids About Money

Why Women Worry So Much

Scientists have known that on the whole, females of all ages tend to worry more and have more intense worries than males. Women also tend to perceive more risk in situations and grow more anxious than men.
Now we know why.
Why Women Worry So Much

Happy 30th birthday, Atari 2600!

See that Wii or Xbox sitting under your TV? The PSP or DS tucked away in your messenger bag? That copy of Pac-man on your cellphone which cost five bucks and expires next month? Each of them owe a debt of gratitude to the granddaddy of all videogame consoles, the Atari 2600, which ushered in an era of unprecedented television usage, and which turns 30 years old this month.
Happy 30th birthday, Atari 2600!

10 Tips for a Killer Presentation

Presentations are something that we’re all familiar with. Whether you are watching a presentation or giving a presentation, chances are you know what sucks and what doesn’t. However, in case you don’t know the suck from the not, here are ten tips to help ensure you are giving a good presentation.
10 Tips for a Killer Presentation

InterviewUp Aims to Help You Prep For Job Interviews

InterviewUp is a new Web 2.0 job site with the idea of helping you prep for that next big interview by getting you ready by reading possible questions your interviewer will have for you.
InterviewUp Aims to Help You Prep For Job Interviews

7 Tips for Resolving Conflicts Quickly and Peacefully

Everyone has to deal with difficult people, whether they are argumentative, abusive, stubborn, or combative. The question is, how can you assert your own rights without creating an unnecessary incident?
Resolving Conflicts Quickly and Peacefully

Staying Motivated to Exercise

Exercise is always a do-it-yourself venture. No other person and no machine can do it for you. Hence, it is important to have those motivating factors so that a person who is into exercise in order to lose weight will hang about.
Staying Motivated to Exercise

Enduring Voices Project, Endangered Languages Facts, Photos, Map

Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth—many of them never yet recorded—will likely disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and how the human brain works.
Enduring Voices Project, Endangered Languages Facts, Photos, Map

Vacuuming the Lungs

How to breathe deeply when you're nervous.
Vacuuming the Lungs

BBC - Human Body and Mind - Sleep

Whether you have trouble sleeping or not, take the Sleep Profiler and get tailored advice on how best to optimise your sleep.
BBC - Human Body and Mind - Sleep

Nice lllusion

This picture is not animated!
Nice lllusion

What Kind of Memory Does My Computer Have Installed?

If you are looking to upgrade the memory in your computer, you are probably wondering how many open slots you have, what type of memory is already installed, and what you need to buy for an upgrade… without having to open your computer.
Since you shouldn't have to open up the computer just to figure out what you have installed, here's a couple of options for detecting the type of memory already installed in your system.
What Kind of Memory Does My Computer Have Installed?

10 Google Video Documentaries You Have To Watch

NicheGeek.com posted a list of top 10 documentaries hosted on Google Video.
10 Google Video Documentaries You Have To Watch

10 Benefits of Power Napping, and How to Do It

College students and kindergartens love them. Now, there may be proof that catching a few zzz’s in the afternoon can be beneficial to your health.
Researchers have found in recent years that the human body requires only as much sleep as the brain will allow it. In other words, so long as the brain is functioning at full capacity, there’s no great requirement for sleep.
10 Benefits of Power Napping, and How to Do It

Top 10 Freeware Software Nobody Knows About - But Should

It’s always a shame when a great program is not heard about by most people - especially when it’s free. Here are the top 10 freeware software that many people still haven’t tried, but definitely should.
Top 10 Freeware Software Nobody Knows About - But Should

Does Exercise Really Make Us Thinner?

Why most of us believe that exercise makes us thinner—and why we're wrong.
Does Exercise Really Make Us Thinner?

jZip - a free alternative to WinZip

The new free jZip.
Create, extract and manipulate Zip, RAR, TAR, GZip, 7-Zip and other file archives.
jZip is absolutely FREE for everybody, home and enterprise users.
jZip is an easy to use and fast archiving software.
jZip is based on proven 7-Zip technology by Igor Pavlov.
jZip - a free alternative to WinZip

Graphics Goodies for MS Excel–Seven Top Tips

Many computer users reach for Microsoft Excel to do much more than just standard spreadsheets. Many people reach for it as their preferred way to produce charts and graphics, or do graphical prototyping. Here are some useful ways to do Excel graphics and charts more efficiently, and make them look better.
Graphics Goodies for MS Excel–Seven Top Tips

50 Green Tips for Earth Day and Beyond

It doesn't have to be Earth Day for me to think about how I can make an impact (or less of an impact) on our planet. Here are a few of my favorite tips.
50 Green Tips for Earth Day and Beyond

101 Zen Stories

101 Zen Stories

Clever Uses For Dental Floss

I had forgotten that a woman I know used dental floss this past May to expertly cut a white sheet cake into 60 slices. Not that you'll be traveling with huge sheet cake, but it's good to know that if you were, and if you had dental floss, you'd have a way to wow the crowd.
Clever Uses For Dental Floss

Outback Race to Flush out Fastest Dunny

The world's eyes, and noses, are on the outback central western Queensland town of Winton today for the Australian Dunny Derby.
Outback race to flush out fastest dunny

Don't Forget: Drink a Beer—Or Two—Daily!

You may be hard-pressed to recall events after a night of binge drinking, but a new report suggests that low to moderate alcohol consumption may actually enhance memory.
Don't Forget: Drink a Beer—Or Two—Daily

Fruits, Veggies Won't Lower Colon Cancer Risk

Although eating lots of fruits and vegetables is good for your health, doing so will not reduce your risk for colon cancer, a Canadian study finds.
But fruits and veggies can still help ward off heart diseases and other cancers, one expert says.
Fruits, Veggies Won't Lower Colon Cancer Risk

How to Accept Criticism with Grace and Appreciation

How do you deal with criticism? I think the first reaction for most of us is to defend ourselves, or worse yet to lash back.
And yet, while criticism can be taken as hurtful and demoralizing, it can also be viewed in a positive way: it is honesty, and it can spur us to do better. It’s an opportunity to improve.
How to Accept Criticism with Grace and Appreciation

Coin Stacking Pictures

The following is the basic pattern for building cantilevered structures with Pennies. Although it looks trivial, we can build amazing structures with these pillars. All penny columns are ten high, a "stack". Two side-by-side pennies held in place by a penny above them is called a "triad". Below is a stack with two triads resting on top.
Coin Stacking Pictures

Ten Timeless Persuasive Writing Techniques

Want to convince your readers to do something or agree with your point of view?
OK, that was a silly question. Of course you do.
Ten Timeless Persuasive Writing Techniques

30 Fundamentals of a Wonderful Life

Here are 30 fundamentals of a wonderful life. Yes -I’m sure there are more, but if you can manage to get each of these under control you will have a strong foundation upon which to build a wonderful life.
30 Fundamentals of a Wonderful Life

Jaxtr Doubles to Two Million Users in 30 Days

It was exactly one month ago that we reported that Jaxtr had reached one million users. Today, the company that offers widgets that let people call you from your social networking profiles is announcing they have surpassed the two million user mark.
Jaxtr Doubles to Two Million Users in 30 Days

Searching For Music and Personalizing Those Results

If you're into music you might want to take a look at Pandora. Pandora allows you to list the songs and artists you like. Then, makes suggestions about songs and groups that you might also like to listen to. Then listen on the web.
Where does the information (metadata) originate to find similarities in the music so suggestions can be made?
Humans.
Searching For Music and Personalizing Those Results

The Lowly Hyphen: Reports of Its Death are Greatly Exaggerated

When a new edition of a dictionary is published, you never know what people are going to pick up on as noteworthy. Last week, when the sixth edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary was officially launched, much of the surrounding publicity had to do with the all the brand-new material: the 2,500 new words and phrases and 1,300 new illustrative quotes. But what’s gotten just as much attention is something that’s missing. The hyphen.
The Lowly Hyphen: Reports of Its Death are Greatly Exaggerated

A Year of Following All the Rules in the Bible

The guy who wrote The Know-It-All, a book about reading the entire Encyclopedia, recently spent a year trying to follow all 700 plus rules he found in the Bible. These rules ranged from the obvious Ten Commandments to the more obscure details of Old Testament laws, which ultra orthodox Jews might follow: leaving side hair uncut, dwelling in huts on certain holidays, strict dietary routines.
A Year of Following All the Rules in the Bible

10 Things You Can Do Today to Simplify Your Life

Simplifying can sometimes be overwhelming. The amount of stuff you have in your life and the amount of things you have to do can be too big a mountain to tackle.
But you don’t have to simplify it all at once. Do one thing at a time, and take small steps. You’ll get there, and have fun doing it.
10 Things You Can Do Today to Simplify Your Life

Quick Tip: Change the Registered Owner in Windows

If you've ever wondered how to change the name of the person that Windows is registered to, this is the quick tip for you. It's not all that useful, but it might come in handy if you got a computer from somebody else.
Quick Tip: Change the Registered Owner in Windows