The secret life of Consumer Reports secret shoppers

It would be an interesting, and very challenging, job.

http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/16-03/ps_consumerreports

An interesting list of Vista woes: "Hostile Ta Vista, Baby!"

This guy compiled a heck of a list of Vista issues that he encountered on a new computer fully capable of running Vista. Granted, I have not installed Vista on any computer, I think I would agree with most of his points.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/08/1627201

Great. It looks like Microsoft will be powering the Library of Congress web site

I have zero interest in Silverlight. I have zero interest in Flash. I had no choice but to install Flash in my browsers, and now it looks like I'm going to have to install more Microsoft crap on my Mac.

*sigh*

The Article: http://www.gcn.com/print/27_2/45710-1.html

The Slashdot Blather: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/24/1939214

How to stop a 500' monster!

A bit of fluff, a bit of fun.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/02/monster-mash-ko.html

Ten ways we get the odds wrong

A summary of why we do not always properly perceive risk.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=pto-20071228-000005&print=1