Kens Pen

Everybody’s talking about swine flu! This small outbreak has enjoyed more buzz than Miley Cyrus eloping with Amy Winehouse…online forums are jumping, the blogosphere is lit up, and digital billboards in Times Square are blaring! The television media is talking about swine flu 20 times an hour, per channel, at the minimum.

I am not saying that it isn’t important to know about the swine flu outbreak, or that it should not be talked about, but when it comes to something like alarming people about infective diseases, why can’t we just have the facts and leave out the hype? read more »

We’re all used to CAPTCHAS, the little images embedded in web pages that have randomly-generated characters. You must retype the captcha text into a form field before you can register, or comment or do something along those lines.

I think they are a hell of an invention even if they are annoying. read more »