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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.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Poll: What facial hair do you sport?

- Mustache alone
- Soul patch
- Sideburns
- Goatee (with mustache)
- Goatee (without mustache)
- Goatee plus sideburns
- Full beard (neatly trimmed)
- Full beard (somewhat unruly)
- Full beard (mountain man style)
- None - a clean face is a sign of a clean soul

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LAST WEEK'S RESULTS

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

Work - 20.0%
Video games - 9.2%
Caffeine - 5.8%
TV - 4.2%
Web-surfing - 8.3%
Parties (that I attend) - 4.2%
Parties (being held next door, keeping me up) - 0.0%
Crying baby - 8.3%
Stress - 25.8%
Nothing (zzzzzz) - 14.2%

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Monday, November 19, 2007

Greatest hits of viral video

Mark Sullivan, PC World

There's no formula for creating a video that millions of people will be inspired to watch and tell their friends about, but if there were, it would have to include some portion of humor (often unintentional), embarrassment, obscenity, and plain old goofiness. Since the advent of YouTube in 2005, many viral videos have been made, but few surpass the popularity of these 25, um, classics. ...Continue


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