So Much for the CW

Everybody knows reading in dim light is bad for your eyes, shaving body hair makes it grow back faster and thicker (Just ask Kramer.), we use only 10% (or less) of our brains, and eating turkey will make you drowsy.

Well, maybe it ain't so ...

Revealed: The seven great "medical myths"|Oddly Enough|Reuters.com

Lock Bumping - What is it?

Do you know about this stuff

An Icy Blast

The morning of December 13, 2007, saw a blast of wintry precipitation that left everything coated with a frigid layer of ice.

StupidFilter - It's About Time!

I've been waiting for something like this ...

scientists are developing the “StupidFilter” – an open-source filter software that will be able to detect “rampant stupidity” of web-content in written English. Similarly to the way spam recognizing software detects suspicious e-mails, the “StupidFilter” will look for pre-fed words or sign combinations that characterize stupidity

Read more at The Future of Things ...

StupidFilter - Time to Fight Back the Imbeciles - TFOT

Blast From the Past

Everything comes around again! Here's the hot boomer item this holiday season ...

From Brookstone

Homemade Windshield Deicer

For many of us, along with winter comes an endless expanse of mornings spent freezing our fingers off scraping ice from our windshields. Rather than walking that chilly road again this winter, the Dollar Stretcher web site suggests several DIY solutions for keeping your windshield ice-free this winter. For example:

To prevent your car's windows/mirrors from icing up... treat the windows before you go to bed each night. The window treatment can be made up of 3 parts vinegar to 1 part water and placed in a spray bottle... [and] will prevent ice from forming.

From other posts in the thread, it sounds like rubbing alcohol can be substituted for vinegar, and the solution can be applied either before or after the ice has formed.

From Lifehacker

Keynote to YouTube

I stumbled upon a great feature of Apple's Keynote '08 presentation software. You can have your slideshow posted as a YouTube video from within Keynote.

Use the File - Send to - YouTube command and just sit back and wait for the magic to happen.

WKRP Thanksgiving Promotion Episode

Fans of WKRP in Cincinnati will remember the classic episode in which the station drops turkeys from a helicopter over a shopping mall in a Thanksgiving promo.

Use an Empty Soda Can to Boost Your Wi-Fi

According to this video from Green Baby Productions via Metacafe you can boost your wireless for virtually nothing using an empty soda can

Caffeine Boost Your WIFI - Click here for the funniest movie of the week

 I have not personally tried this tip so proceed at your own risk. Exercise caution when cutting the soda can as the edges may be sharp.

Wrigley Field Los Angeles???

I learned something I never knew from an old movie, Armored Car Robbery (1950). It was set in Los Angeles. That was made emphatically clear. But, some scenes took place at a ballpark called Wrigley Field. This seemed incongruous. But I Googled "Wrigley Field Los Angeles" and discovered there really was a Wrigley Field in south central LA. It was the home to some Pacific Coast League teams and, in 1961, was the home of the Angels. Learn something new everyday.