Miscellaneous Ramblings

When Daniel Wright needs new comedic material, he turns to an unlikely source: the website of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

The ability to suck up to the folks who don’t have big titles but make the world run is more useful.

If life throws you a lemon, you can always make lemonade. But what if life throws you more than 500 roadkilled deer?

If we want to support individuals indefinitely — allotting each person 3,500 calories per day from wheat and 247,000 gallons per year of fresh water — the planet has room for only about 5 billion people.

Peter Skidmore, a program manager from Seattle, has officially come up with the best idea since sliced bread.

Since money, like viruses, is transported from person to person, place to place, researchers feel that this model is the best way to track the movement of people.

13. The furor dies down, but only after Sony says that the real intent was to prevent the spread of the malicious Celine Dion virus.

Earwax may not play a prominent part in human history but at least a small role for it has now been found by a team of Japanese researchers.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Read on for the top ten ways computing can hurt you — but watch your posture, OK?