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Quiz: Are You Smarter Than a 12th Grader? - US News and World Report
Every two years, the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy tests 12th graders practical money knowledge. The average score usually hovers around 52 percent. You can test yourself on these sample questions from the 2006 survey.
I got 6/6 correct, but they are [...]

WordPress › Support » I don’t like the way 2.5 is going
Lets see:
1. All this space and HUGE fonts.
Please ask your designer to use a 1200x or 1400x res monitor
2. “Write” - do we really need ~280 px of vertical space before the Title field?
3. Write - > “Post” please move “Categories” to right [...]

Happiness = Marshmellows

Mmmmm Marshmallows.
Here’s another one on flickr

Set Daily Puzzle [Today's puzzle completed 57 Secs ]
Today’s puzzle is an easier one, so if you are a Set beginner, today is a good day to get practice

YouTube - Hot Dog Assembly Machine
Awesome robot that gets a hotdog, buns it (its totally a verb), applies mustard and ketchup, and then serves with a juicebox.
Made by RIT’s Society of Manufacturing Engineers, via MAKE: Blog: Hot dog assembly machine

Apple sued over ‘inferior’ iMac screens | InfoWorld | News | 2008-04-01 | By Matthew Broersma, Techworld
The company pointed to claims by Apple that the 20-inch iMac’s screens can display “millions of colors at all resolutions” and provides a “stunning” visual experience for uses such as watching movies, editing photos, and playing games.In fact, these [...]

Hackers Publish German Minister’s Fingerprint | Threat Level from Wired.com
According to CCC, the print of Schauble’s index finger was lifted from a water glass that he used during a panel discussion that he participated in last year at a German university. CCC published the print on a piece of plastic inside 4,000 copies of its [...]

National Geographic News Photo Gallery: Giant, Unknown Animals Found off Antarctica
An Antarctic octopus found at 3,280 feet (1,000 meters) in southern Antarctica’s Ross Sea was one of about 18 octopus species recorded during a survey conducted in early 2008.

Some more pictures of the creepy crawlies from the cold deep are on the site.
via Photos of [...]

I always here people moaning about how awful Vista is.  What are their complaints?
“It’s too slow” which is a stupid complaint, because does OSX run on a G3? no!  Vista wont run on old super old hardware either
Next complaint?
UAC is annoying (User Account Control). Well so is the damn OSX pop up about putting your [...]