Are you people out there doping yourself up digitally every time I turn my back? First, Digital Goddess Kim Komando warns us that Web sites are targeting our kids with so-called digital drugs, audio files that have the same effect as drugs:
There are different slang terms for digital drugs. They're often called "idozers" or "idosers." All rely on the concept of binaural beats.
It is incorrect to call binaural beats music. They're really ambient sounds designed to affect your brain waves.
Journal Gazette cartoonist Dan Lynch and I were hang-out-on-break-together buddies, and we even got together a few times to mess around with guitars (he could actually play his). He used to describe one of his co-workers this way: "You know that governor you have in your head that tells you when to stop talking because you're in danger of going too far? And sometimes it even tells you not to speak at all?
China vs. the United States -- the count so far: China 20 medals, including 13 gold; the United States 21medals, but only seven gold.
And, er, China 17, the U.S. 16, but not till next year:
New projections indicate a weak dollar, failing trade agreements and an economy flirting with a recession will permit China to overtake the U.S. as the world's leading manufacturer four years earlier than previously predicted.
Don't go out in the sun -- you'll get cancer! OK, fine, I'll stay indoors more. Oops:
Inadequate vitamin D could increase your risk of death by 26 percent, a new study concludes.
Yet many people are not getting enough vitamin D, which the skin makes naturally when exposed to sunlight. A nationwide survey found that 41 percent of men and 53 percent of women in the United States were not getting enough of this vital nutrient.
I've decided I want a federal government job. I want a nice title, a big office, a hefty salary and an army of bureaucratic fussbudgets I can send around the country to make people's lives miserable. I shall lobby to become the Tire Pressure Minister:
I haven't been in a lot of coffeehouses, so I'll have to take take Dave Beckham's word for it they're hotbets of liberal radicalism. Even if it is true, it's certainly because of the kind of people who go to coffeehouses, not because a bunch of sneaky progressives came up with brilliant business plans. So I don't think Beckham's solution is going to fuffill any great unmet need in Crown Point:
My English teacher Mrs. Lee would have been appalled at the sheer illogic of a sentence such as this:
Numbers released by the U.S. Census Bureau Thursday reveal that nearly one out of 10 counties are now classified as "majority-minority," meaning the county's population includes over 50 percent minority residents.
The State Fair is joining the cashless society:
Whether it's buying an elephant ear or tickets for rides on the Midway, visitors to this year's Indiana State Fair will have more opportunities to use their credit and debit cards. Fair officials say after listening to customer feedback, they've added more ATM locations around the Fairgrounds and more vendors will accept credit cards.
A youngster is horrified by the killing of another young man. He is obsessed by the case and haunted by it all his life. Finally:
In 1995, Stewart became a State Police detective and renewed his interest in the unidentified body, putting hours into solving the case, or at least determining the teenager's identity.
Don't judge a book by it's cover. Be wary of first impressions. Appearances can be deceiving. Not so fast there, you trusting soul:
