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The term is obviously meant as an insult, but the war between winfags and macfags is long from over.

Protect PCs and servers from power problems with battery backup UPS systems.

As Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum finished his speech on Saturday following his third-place finish in the South Carolina primary, he was glitter-bombed by members of the Occupy Charleston movement ...

Micropatronage is growing bigger by the day.

Those brogans looks old.

Founded in 1995, Yahoo was quick to get into search (The Guardian, 19 Jan 2012)

Coined 'Burgernomics,' the Big Mac Index has become a global standard of determining purchasing power between two currencies by comparing the cost of the McDonald's burger in any two countries.

The social media site, Mashable, calls these kinds of "social gestures," one of the tech trends to look out for in 2012: "With 800 million people already on Facebook, its growth is bound to be slow. But if sharing becomes automatic, the volume of content on Facebook will continue to grow at an accelerated pace."

In an unusually blunt statement, Obama administration officials signaled that the White House would not support parts of two bills wending their way through Congress -- the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) that critics say would limit freedom of speech on the Internet and unfairly punish legitimate websites.

As the realities of SOPA passing become an Orwellian-threat almost coming to life, computer users are quickly taking to the Web to spread information to other surfers on how to sneak past the firewall that could cause the censoring of the Internet.

The study found partner betweenness undermines men's feelings of autonomy and privacy, which are central to traditional concepts of masculinity.

For anyone not yet initiated into the ritual of Herman cake creation, it is the culinary equivalent of a chain letter.

Apparently dieting is useless for weight loss because we're naturally selected to survive famine. We can lose a chunk once in a lifetime, but the body cunningly adjusts to this self-induced cachexia and the next time we try, it simply won't work.

I am reliably informed ... that Mr Harrison was having a lend of us all when he announced that he was going to play it safe against Andy Murray.

Newt Gingrich, who was absolutely destroyed by a barrage of Mitt Romney-linked SuperPAC attack ads in Iowa, is stepping up his attack on Romney.

The most arresting takeaway last October at the Frankfurt presentation was that adding “enhanced metadata” elements to a basket of backlist books not only stopped their normal sales decay, it reversed it and actually made sales of those books rise after the metadata was improved. / This could be the most important takeaway from today's Fed announcement

Surprising twitistics in this blog post ...

The rats in those open gutters are as big as cats and knarsty!

The newly identified hormone, called irisin, increases in the body during exercise, boosting energy expenditure and controlling blood glucose levels.

The US tradition of having a baby shower to celebrate an impending birth is now commonplace in the UK. But "foetus parties", where people gather to view 3D and 4D scan pictures are also gaining in popularity.