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Genes affect women's ability to reach orgasm. LONDON (Reuters) – Women who have difficulty reaching orgasm can blame it on their genes. Like heart disease, anxiety and depression, scientists discovered in a study of 1,397 pairs of female twins there is a genetic basis to female orgasm. [Reuters Health eLine]

Why Smart People Defend Bad Ideas. Scott Berkun's article, “Why Smart People Defend Bad Ideas,” is a thoughtful examination of why ordinarily rational and intelligent people defend and hold on to the silliest ideas and practices.  Much of it has to do with ego or simple group thinking.  I agree with Tasha at Sites and… Continue reading Why Smart People Defend Bad Ideas

more on small. What do you do once you realize the power of small? (tiny correction… eBay has more than 8,000 employees! That's a lot of mouths to feed). It's one thing to say, “yep, of course, small is the new big.”  It's quite another to actually do anything about it. For the last six… Continue reading more on small

Airport insecurity. Slate continues its reasoned look at the current state of airport security, this time in a piece penned by Christopher Hitchens. The pullquote that sets the tone of the piece: The time elapsed between Sept. 11, 2001, and today's writing (1,364 days) is only slightly less than the time between Pearl Harbor and… Continue reading Airport insecurity

Exchange 2003 Standard 16GB Limit: Good Riddance. Possibly the biggest improvement introduced with the upcoming service pack 2 for Exchange Server 2003 is the lifting of the 16BG store limit for the Standard version. SP2 adds a 75GB limit. This is great news for those of us… [MS Exchange Blog]

FCGI-powered Rails on Windows 2003. Just because you’re forced to run Windows at work shouldn’t preclude you from getting jiggy with Ruby on Rails. The Windows crowd on the Rails mailing list have been working over time putting the pieces of the puzzle together and Boris have made a very nice write-up of how to… Continue reading FCGI-powered Rails on Windows 2003

Apple has no choice but to switch to Intel. In June 04 I reported that Apple notebook technology was being stymied by IBM's inability or unwillingness to create a mobile PowerPC chip with better thermal requirements. The current chips just run too hot. With the simple confirmation from Apple last year that the 2.5GHz, G5… Continue reading Apple has no choice but to switch to Intel

Government may adopt EU constitution without vote. PARTS of the European Union constitution could still be implemented, even though there will be no British referendum on the treaty, the government conceded yesterday. [The Scotsman]

Apple+Intel Post Annoucement Second Thoughts. OK, so with the planned leak, the keynote wasn't a blow but a confirmation. What is everyone watching this really missing? The lack of surprise by developers. Not in the switch to Intel, the lack of surprise that Apple has been planning this for some time. Most competent developers would… Continue reading Apple+Intel Post Annoucement Second Thoughts

Laptops are mobile devices, too. Something I've been wondering about is why laptops aren't really treated as mobile devices, in any interesting way. Laptop manufacturers tend to treat them as portable desktops, and people interested in “mobile device design” focus on PDAs, cell phones, and the like. Now that laptops outsell desktops, it's worth treating… Continue reading Laptops are mobile devices, too