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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, November 14, 2007

Poll: What's most likely to keep you from getting a good night's sleep?

- Work
- Video games
- Caffeine
- TV
- Web-surfing
- Parties (that I attend)
- Parties (being held next door, keeping me up)
- Crying baby
- Stress
- Nothing (zzzzzz)

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LAST WEEK'S RESULTS

What's your Wikipedia usage like?

9.6% - I would never use anything so notoriously unreliable
76.9% - I use it as a starting point to find out about subjects I'm unfamiliar with
7.7% - I sometimes contribute to articles on subjects I'm knowledgeable about
4.8% - I can follow from link to link for hours, and have done major surgery on a number of articles
1.0% - I'm currently engaged in at least three very heated edit wars

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

NASA research to ease drunkenness

Sometimes people grouse about all the tax money that goes to supposedly esoteric space-based research. How can it help us in the real world? Well, a test series NASA developed to detect Martian life is now being used to determine if a wine will cause the dreaded "red wine headache." ...Read more


WHAT'S WHIRLING

In the news: Eight-year-old geniuses invent wedgie-proof underwear

Out of IT: Does your Website suck?

Bad idea: Halo 3 fan punches mom, cops when forced to stop playing

Geek Comic of the Week: Nekko and Joruba