Comment Doesn't bother me... (Score 1) 176
Fingernails on a chalkboard has never bothered me. Neither does rubbing a balloon. I wonder what the criteria for having or not having the negative physical reaction they describe is.
The Weight of an e-Book 243
whoever57 writes "According to Prof Kubiatowicz from Berkeley, each time an additional book is downloaded to an e-reader, the mass of the e-reader increases. The effect doesn't really make the devices more difficult to carry: the professor calculates that 4GB of books would increase its weight by a billionth of a billionth of a gram— about the mass of a single virus or DNA molecule."
Comment Did you? (Score 1) 222
That would be E(D) = -2y[sub i](a-a[sub 0])e^(-D/D[sub 0])
Comment Smiley=Warm Fuzzies (Score 1) 41
I'd be a little wary about putting my head in that thing...maybe it would be more helpful if it too had a display with a smiley face on it.
Comment Re:For the rest of us... (Score 1) 94
http://www.opendns.com/
Pretty simple DNS service, which I've used for a while.
