Tiny Specks of Misery, Both Vile and Useful
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Itâs easy to hate viruses for their freeloading ways, but they have also repaid us in ways we are just beginning to tally.
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If you're a regular user of Twitter you're probably quite familiar with this image.  They've tried lots of variants, making it funny, or cute, with pictures of LOL Cats, doing cute things with screw drivers, but the pictures aren't funny for long, the more you see them, the more tiresome they get. Then I had an idea they could be used for a good cause.  Yeah that does it!
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"The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture" by Andrew Keen; Currency ($22.95)  ___  Andrew Keen is an unhappy man.
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Comment Dirty, and getting dirtier
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You're probably better off -- and worse off -- than you thought.
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Barking, repressive, unworkable ideas are clearly catching
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With gadgets, smaller is generally better -- with a few exceptions. Wired lists five gadgets for which manufacturers' mania for extreme miniaturization is actually a liability.
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By Joseph Szydlowski  If you took a look inside your trash can, what would you see?   Junk mail? Coffee grounds.
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Oddly enough, good news can be bad, and vice versa.
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On the Mark: The blame game within IT can slow the resolution of problems reported by end users. But there are tools that can put a stop to all the finger-pointing, Mark Hall writes.
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It might surprise you how handy -- and inexpensive -- it can be.
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In brief Exploit circulating for unpatched vuln
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An invitation to a conference on the politics of waste leads to thoughts on the relationship of dirt and technology -- thoughts that lead inexorably to the trash-can icon on personal computers. Commentary by Momus.
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Fags, mags and... er... digital music download vouchers
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There's more bad news for those  pudgy couch potatoes, junk food junkies and TV devotees -- and  this time it really hits them where it hurts.
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Blogs and wikis are wonderful tools, but they can devolve into the online equivalent of grunting apes.
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It turns out that misery is not miserly.