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Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime
siliconbits writes with an excerpt from NY Times: "Technology makes the tiniest windows of time entertaining, and potentially productive. But scientists point to an unanticipated side effect: when people keep their brains busy with digital input, they are forfeiting downtime that could allow them to better learn and remember information, or come up with new ideas."
Why do you think I run Windows? ::rimshot::
Living With a Nerd
NPR had a long thing on this the other day. Supposedly it kills our attention span. Or something, tl;dl.
THL phish sticks
Did Slashdot just advise us to cut back on Slashdot?
*People ask how can you manage that - I tell them it's a little secret called forethought or planning.
I usually tell them it's a little secret called "no friends".
Jesus had a UNIX beard.
"I thought cell phones were only useful for buying drugs."
There's an app for that.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
I once heard a tale of someone who when faced with a boss who demanded updates every 15 minutes on what he was doing wrote a script which strung together meaningless management buzzwords in a vaguely sensible format and emailed them to his boss every 15 minutes.
a few weeks later he gets an award for being a team player and keeping his boss in the loop.
It's not like the boss ever reads them after the first day.
Just set a couch as your screen background...
I think a study should be done that correlates smartphone ownership with time spent per bathroom break. I think you all know why.
Life is rarely fair. Cherish the moments when there is a right answer.
Ahh - Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
This one's tricky. You have to use imaginary numbers, like eleventeen... --Hobbes