Bag of Randomness

  • Per my new Consumer Reports, when the term kosher is used with pickles, it doesn’t mean it was prepared under a rabbi’s supervision, but that garlic was added to the brine.  And dill sometimes refers to size or that dill weed was added to the brine.
  • The CBS Evening News has been using Sky News’ Holly Williams for some of their reporting in Asia.  Her blonde hair and British accent certainly has my attention.
  • What the front of an NFL contract looks like.
  • I love how the Comedy Awards uses Johnny Carson’s old curtain from The Tonight Show.
  • Since I’m married to the best looking one-eyed-woman I know, I’m always on the lookout for one-eyed stories.  Here’s one in which a war veteran has the Purple Heart on his prosthetic eye, and he’s another one where a man actually gets a bionic eye implant.
  • I was writing the other day looking for a way to backup all my photos online and compared different plans.  One of my readers was nice enough to recommend SmugMug, where you can store unlimited photos for only $40 a year and they also offer other bells and whistles such as easy linking and great displays.  He was also nice enough to provide a promotion code for $5 off the first year ( 7hlbThvNOsIu2).  Yeah, he may get a small incentive for providing the code, but hey, it’s $5.  Here’s an in-depth review of SmugMug if you are interested.
  • A California man wants to find Bin Laden’s body before the presidential election.
  • Next year the cost of an upper deck seat at a Charlotte Bobcats game will be the number the team gets in the lottery.
  • There was a lot of buzz on the Internet about the new Samsung phone.  It has a sensor that can tell if you are looking at the screen, so when you aren’t it will dim or go off and come back on when  you look at it.  If you are on a text and then just hold the phone to your face, it will call the person that text is from.  And it has some sort of Siri like function to it as well.
  • One major advantage that I think Apple has over it’s phone competitors is that it only produces one phone at a time, so it’s able to pour all it’s time and resources into developing a new one, as opposed to other phone manufacturers who make numerous phones and have to spread their time and resources.
  • Mountain Dew Cupcakes
  • There’s nothing like bringing a toddler to the after game press conference.
  • A birthday cake with a melting chocolate candle
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Religious websites riskier than porn for online viruses: study

SAN FRANCISCO — Web wanderers are more likely to get a computer virus by visiting a religious website than by peering at porn, according to a study released on Tuesday.

“Drive-by attacks” in which hackers booby-trap legitimate websites with malicious code continue to be a bane, the US-based anti-virus vendor Symantec said in its Internet Security Threat Report.

Websites with religious or ideological themes were found to have triple the average number of “threats” that those featuring adult content, according to Symantec.

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Being ‘Born-Again’ Linked to More Brain Atrophy

Older adults who say they’ve had a life-changing religious experience are more likely to have a greater decrease in size of the hippocampus, the part of the brain critical to learning and memory, new research finds.

According to the study, people who said they were a “born-again” Protestant or Catholic, or conversely, those who had no religious affiliation, had more hippocampal shrinkage (or “atrophy”) compared to people who identified themselves as Protestants, but not born-again.

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