This is the darkest day on my favorite comics, Piled Higher and Deeper. Cecilia and her nameless boyfriend are breaking up!!! Jorge, please stop it [though I know you are the one who plans that]!... Read more >>

My iBook died today. It can't turn on. No startup chime, no hard drive spinning, no fan noise. It just died. What an drama right after my last post screaming how awesome my iBook is! So what should I do?... Read more >>

The battery of my 2.5-year-old iBook G4 can still last 3+ hours. My IBM T42 can stay slightly over 1 hour after one year and half. My 2.5-year-old iPod can play for 9+ hours continuously. It makes the trip to/from... Read more >>

Via the BBC, French sociologist and philosopher Jean Baudrillard has died aged 77 at his home in Paris following a long illness. Baudrillard, a leading post-modernist thinker, is perhaps best known for his concept of hyper-reality. He argued that spectacle... Read more >>

I obtained the data from Wikipedia Statistics English. Those are the top 10 Wikipedia users ordered by numbers of contributions. The numbers of edits exclude edits on discussion pages. So who are they? Out of curiosity, I looked up those... Read more >>

If possible, please comment to tell why you always/often/sometimes/rarely/never use "I am Feeling Lucky." Take Our Poll from PollDaddy.com... Read more >>

Via Northwestern Technology News: eCommunicator Winter 07. NU Blog, a new service from NUIT Academic Technologies, was designed with collaboration and extension in mind. Exclusively available through Northwestern's Course Management System, NU Blog offers faculty and students a more convenient... Read more >>