Myth: “We use only 10% of our brains”

Damn those ad men! Damn them to heck~! It turns out that one of the more persistent myths – and one that I myself have wondered over – is that we only use 10% of our brains.  And that if we were only able to “turn on” the other 90%, then...

Program Your Own Web

With your own content, cross-indexed in a way that makes the information so much more deliciously … mmmmmm …. meta.  A growing fave of web designers are the so-called “Mashups” where, for example, you use Google maps and the zip codes of...

…there’s the life we lead…

…and the life we were supposed to lead… My mind just got blown again.  Apparently, I need to do some spelunking in the WoW and Second Life caves, because there is a lot of action there that is flying under the radar.  The stat that grabbed my...

Yoogle Cuts a Deal with the Labels

I was wondering about this … Before the whole Google-YouTube merger, the conventional wisdom had been replete with stories about how YouTube was, in effect, a poison pill.  That the minute anyone with any jack in their jeans bought it, they would also buy...