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.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

She's a 10: Top 10 genuine geek movies



- Top 10 genuine geek movies

- Top 10 signs you're addicted to RSS

- Top ten lies a PR firm will tell you

- 10 illegal job interview questions

See all the tens

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

POLL: What was the first computer magazine you subscribed to?

- Portable 100
- Computerworld
- Macworld
- 80 Micro (the TRS-80 magazine)
- Wired
- Hi-Res
- Compute!
- Creative Computing
- PC Magazine

Answer this poll


WHAT YOU SAID

Have you ever been fired?

11.0% - Nope - I've been at the same job my whole working life

44.9% - Nope - I've always left on my terms

13.6% - Well, I've been part of mass layoffs, but I've never been singled out

14.4% - Yes, but I've grown as an employee since then

11.9% - Yes, due to personality conflicts with the boss

4.2% - I am unemployable

Answer another poll

Monday, October 08, 2007

Harry Potter alert! The invisibility cloak is one step closer

Wouldn't you like to have a Potter-esque cloak that renders you invisible to all around you? Well, scientists at the University of Maryland may be able to help you ... so long as you're less than 10 micrometers in diameter. And two dimensional. OK, there are a few bugs still to work out...


WHAT'S WHIRLING

News: George Takei gets to space ... in asteroid form

Bad idea: Work computers and porn: Two great tastes that don't go together

Out of IT: Woman left trapped in CT scanner for five hours; can super powers be far behind?

Web comic of the week: Carl is the Awesome!