Hackers breached the nerdy Gawker site recently, snatching up lots of passwords. The surprising thing was the weak quality of the passwords, most of them really silly and useless. I confess that I was a Gawker user with a silly password as well; there was nothing serious I did on Gawker, so I didn’t see the point in crafting a beefy password, though my password didn’t make the top 50 list.

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From PC Mag (UK), the top ten computer errors in the world. Oddly, reformatting your hard drive isn’t one of them. That was a popular computer problem in the 1980s. Oh, those days!

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Intel has announced that it will be phasing out older video technologies, replacing the VGA and DVI standards with DisplayPort and HDMI on future PCs. The end of an era.

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Here’s an LOL for you: What happens when you try to map the USA by typing in Google? The answer is the United States of AutoComplete map. Very funny.

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I’m not a fan of registry tweaks, and I definitely don’t like TweakUI. Still, nestled in this list are some good tips worth recommending.

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When it was first introduced, Windows 1.0 was laughed at, and for good reason.

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Gawker’s review of famous robots for the last several decades, complete with video clips.

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Of course, everyone in the US will know how accurate this is on Wednesday. That brings up a new round of manipulation, of course: Candidates and political parties figuring out how to engineer search results to their own favor. Ugh.

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Google’s founders wanted an uncorrupted, clutter-free search engine. Today they run the world’s largest advertising company. Somehow those two things shouldn’t be mixed.

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Today is the 31^st anniversary of the first email message. It was to send the word log, but the system crashed before the G could be sent.

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