Category: General

One of the RSS news feeds that I read this week pointed to an article from NewScientist.com which proclaims, “Masturbating may protect against prostate cancer.”I guess the kittens are safe…

Count every “F” in the following text:FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS…How many?Wrong, there are six — no joke.Read it again!Really, go back and try to find the 6 F’s before you scroll down…The reasoning behind is further down.The brain cannot process “OF”.Incredible or what? …

via email from Bob Rosen, Thu, 25 May 2006 10:13:44 -0700

Was just looking at job postings at Seagate and came across this word that I hadn’t heard before.  From the sounds of it I was thinking that it was something to do with social (Tribal) engineering, but it really is a noun meaning:The study of friction, wear, lubrication, and the design of bearings; the science…

There is a new online site, The Jetta Report, that lets you see how your opinions match that of a typical VW owner.  Apparently, even though I own two VW‘s, a 1995 Passat, and a 2006 Jetta TDI; my attitude and lifestyle only match that of a typical VW owner by 44 percent.I guess there…

I’ve noticed an increasing number of employers who post jobs to publicly available web sites before they have fully vetted their internal candidates; why would anyone do this?  It used to be that you would look at your internal candidates before you would begin an external search that resulted in an avalanche of resumes.In the…