I noticed that on some visits, Digg includes a JavaScript file hosted by Quantcast, which describes itself itself as “a new media measurement service that enables advertisers to view audience reports for millions of sites and services to build their brands with confidence.”

In other words, they track your usage of a site and try to [...]

I was looking through the manual for my new sapphire Victorinox Cybertool 34 and found this to be enlightening:

It’s a pretty neat tool, though it is a bit much to carry around in my pocket. Luckily, my Wenger Synergy backpack has a special pocket specifically for Swiss Army knives (but I feel like a traitor [...]

I was reading a worst-case scenario guide on how to expunge a nasty e-mail and got to the part where it mentions automatic flame detection:

One e-mail program offers a “Mood Watch” function that monitors your typing and alerts you if a message is approaching “flame” status.

I vaguely recalled this as a feature of [...]

After presidential candidate Chris Dodd came out of the Iowa caucus with approximately 0% of the votes, he abandoned his bid for the presidency.

His website, chrisdodd.com, is now displaying the following banner:

The URL for the above is http://chrisdodd.com/i/10wa/13A.jpg — note the cleverly obfuscated “iowa” directory name. 13 is presumably a reference to the date (January [...]