ITwhirled

Take a break from workday drudgery with ITwhirled. Each weekly installment covers the best in weird news, humor, gadgets, and all manner of offbeat items from the world of IT and beyond.

Friday, November 10, 2006

Haiku: Demolition

This keyboard is hosed.
The f and g do not work.
Where is my hammer?

See what else we've got whirling this week...

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Avoiding 'office-itis' ... Cheeseburger interface sublimity

News: Don't fall prey to "office-itis"
Out of IT: The interface of a cheeseburger
Out of IT: Your daily dose of schadenfruede
Geek Comic of the Week: Zelda Comic

Things to do:
- Test your cinematic knowledge with movie posters created out of stationery products
- Read the complete works of Charles Darwin online
- Astound your friends with 50 interesting science facts

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

She's a 10: Top 10 headphones reviewed

- 10 Useless or even dangerous first aid myths
- 10 Pros & cons of switching from Windows to Mac OS X
- 10 reasons people make stupid decisions
- Top 10 headphones reviewed
- Top 10 controversial pieces of evidence for extraterrestrial life

See all the tens

Monday, November 06, 2006

FTC's Buddy Builder game teaches social-networking safety

The FTC has launched an online quiz-show style game called Buddy Builder to test users' abilities to spot potential threats on social networking Web sites. In the game, players move through rounds by correctly reacting to common requests found on social networking sites. For example, when the game asks: 'Accept or Deny: Wazzup? I think I know U -- send me your pic (in swimsuit, pls!)?' the correct response (obviously we hope) is to deny the request.