Top Skylines Of The World

The top 15 skylines of the world (+2 honorable mentions) with all the usual suspects and Toronto coming in the middle of the pack (hey at least we were on it)

Dressing in Drag

A women in New York pretends to be a man for a year and half to give the male perspective on life and dating from a women's point of view.

Mexican Coke

Mexicans and Americans in the south-west of the USA are picking up the Mexican version of Coca-Cola because it supposedly tastes better, lasts longer, and comes in the old glass bottles.

Google Spider is Full

An entire company's content management system was DELETED by being on the net, by some nefarious hacker? no by Google's spider

Friendster vs MySpace

Why did Friendster lose popularity and MySpace gain users? This essay talks about potential reasons in the eyes of the author.

Multitasking Kids

Teenagers nowadays are multitasking all the time, which is argued to lead to a lack of depth in experience.

Conservative Toddlers

A recent study done in the San Francisco area has found that toddlers with a certain characteristic end up becoming Conservatives, and others with a different characteristic become Democrats.

French Bread

Marginal Revolution takes on the perennial question as to why bread in France is better than in Washington (and the US). Read the comments for the details.

Interesting English Facts

The Oxford English Dictionary has an experts section that has all sorts of interesting facts about the English language.

MPAA < RIAA

Why the MPAA is worse than even the RIAA. Although the MPAA hasn't sued individuals yet, so perhaps they are just both as bad.

Beware of IM

Starting guard for USC got pranked by the opponent school which potentially led to him sucking in the game

Sell Your Google Stock

A good analogy on why you shouldn't buy Google stock regardless of its outrageous price or Google's revenue.

Labels Destroying CDs

Why are there sometimes CDs with a cut out in their spine and why are cut-outs disappearing?

Sleeping Positions

A study reported on the BBC wants to link sleeping position to the type of person you are. I'm skeptical as I usually see this on those personality quiz things on th web, and would have liked to see the confidence of each type.

Tips on Avoiding Cancellation Fee

If you're in the States, wish to cancel your cell phone contract, don't want to pay the fees, and have three months to kill; you can have your provider cancel your contract for you by running up the roaming fees.

Restaurant Stocks

A lot of restaurants are making IPOs and in general doing pretty well. Is it because they are becoming more like Wal-mart?

Rogers Limiting Speeds

Some evidence that Rogers is shaping traffic and limiting the bandwidth of torrents.