- Father and daughter's SMS lifeline -- "An Essex man has taught himself to use text-messaging at the age of 81 so that he can communicate with his daughter who is deaf and has no speech"
- No Privacy for the Poor, Homeless -- "A panel examined how massive databases and computer algorithms are being used to track the homeless or discriminate against the poor who need insurance."
- Excel pile -- some people feel the need to use spreadsheets for everything
- How easily are you disgusted? -- take this online quiz and find out (via plasticbag)
- Hazards of sharing a small cubicle
- Gallery of the Forbidden -- "artifacts related to various historical censorship incidents" (via Follow Me Here)
- People feel loyalty to computers -- "People tend to develop strong ties to a specific computer, even if it means waiting to use their favourite machine"
- Metric-conversions.org has online conversion calculators (via xBlog)
- Giving It Away (for Fun and Profit) -- "Creative Commons encourages artists to share and distribute their work for free. And that could be the key to a new multibillion-dollar industry." (ibid.)
- Who Owns What is the Columbia Journalism Review's guide to what the various major media companies own (via anil's daily links)
- Subliminal Advertising -- linkage to examples, sorted by type and technique (via del.icio.us)
- FuturePundit reports that Humans Most Violent When Only 2 Years Old, but fortunately can't do too much damage at that age