Nowadays, kids carve halloween pumpkins with plastic serated tools that have rounded corners — or their families don’t even carve pumpkins at all, but display plastic or realistic-looking, foam-rubber ones instead.

When I was a kid, we used to carve our Halloween pumpkins with real knives — long, pointy, really sharp knives that often slipped and [more...]

Whether you’re a Linux newbie, veteran, or somewhere in-between, you’ll probably find something that interests you in 50+ Resources For Your Linux Setup/Desktop/Machine/Brain.

Here’s one for movie fans, James Bond fans, technology fans, history fans, and trivia fans: It’s ComputerWeekly’s list of the Top 15 James Bond Gadgets.

I can remember that, at the time they were introduced in their respective James Bond movies, each gadget [more...]

As modern humans, we love to hear about how gullible our ancestors were when it came to believing things that we know aren’t true. The world is flat. Diseases are caused by evil spirits. Elvis was the greatest entertainer who ever lived. Al Gore is a great humanitarian and altruistic environmentalist.

But honestly, if you had lived way back then, I bet [more...]

If you’re in the mood for several good laughs, you’ll enjoy a compilation of the ridiculous mistakes that have been found on people’s resumes.

That is, unless you recognize some of them as things that you have on your resume.