Miscellaneous Ramblings

Slobs who work at home can look their best for videoconferences with the Businessbib, a pullover half-suit that has a built in shirt and tie.

If you’re interested in a do-it-yourself project and want to get to the nuts and bolts with a minimum of chatter, turn off your TV and turn on your computer.

The Shopping Group Inc. in Kitchener, Ontario, has come onto our radar. A consumer almost got involved with a work-at-home offer of secret shopping, and came to find that it had all the components of a counterfeit check payment forward wire fraud scam.

From unforgettable flame-outs to some of the most popular destinations around, no one is safe from our look at the world’s dumbest dot-coms and silliest sites.

Princeton U. researchers have released a study and video that demonstrate the ease of altering votes on an electronic voting machine.

"Supporters say tree roots would get a break, snow removal would be easier, runners would be less prone to injuries, and those confined to wheelchairs would have smoother rides. Even repairs would mean benefits because noisy jackhammers wouldn’t be needed."

I have wanted to go to Montana since meeting a local cowboy dressed from head to foot in Western gear in a bar in Soho. It seemed to me that he was from a place where people are supremely happy to be what they are.

The first thing that came out of our mouths when we heard that Google is working on a system that listens to what’s on your TV playing in the background, and then serves you relevant adverts, was "that’s cool, but dangerous".

Most red-blooded technologists will offer a quick opinion on what’s the greatest software ever, but when you take the time to evaluate what makes software truly brilliant, the choices aren’t so obvious.

A hunger for knowledge and adventure seems to sharpen minds in early adulthood and middle age, but after age 60, it’s not the most gung-ho but the most disagreeable people who are the smartest, a psychologist reports.