Woohoo! I’m not rotting my brain after all!

Playing Video Games Not So Mindless After All

“LONDON (Reuters) – Hours spent playing action video games may not be as mindless as many parents think.”

Shy good guy or benevolent wacko?

Caped crusader saves the day in English town

“LONDON, England (Reuters) — A masked and caped do-gooder has been sweeping through an English town, performing good deeds and scattering terrified bad guys, a local newspaper reported on Friday.”

I’m no fan of PETA, but this is insane.

Farmers Put Live Chickens in Wood Chippers

“LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two California poultry farmers who fed some 30,000 live chickens into wood chippers will not face criminal charges because they had permission from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, prosecutors said on Friday.”

No wonder geeks and nerds are so un-manly.

Bright Light May Boost Testosterone in Men
By Linda Carroll

“NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An extra hour of bright light can lift the levels of a pituitary hormone that enhances testosterone in men, a new study shows.”

Ah…the good old days. 🙂

A world without the Internet
ONLINE REVOLUTION BEGAN 25 YEARS AGO IN CHICAGO — AND IT TOOK JUST A MONTH
By Patrick Kampert

“Imagine a world without the Internet. Without e-mail. Without Windows or Apples. Heck, for that matter, imagine a world without PCs. That’s what the world was like 25 years ago when two Chicago guys named Ward Christensen and Randy Suess officially launched the world’s first computerized bulletin board system (BBS). It took them less than a month to create it. And in typical Chicago fashion, a snowstorm got an assist in the invention.”