Do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting dead?

Why do banks charge a fee on “insufficient funds” when they know there is not enough money?

Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?

Why doesn’t glue stick to the bottle?

Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection?

Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?

Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?

Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

Whose idea was it to put an “S” in the word “lisp”?

If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?

Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?

Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?

Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?

Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?

Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end on your try first?

How do those dead bugs get into those enclosed light fixtures?

When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a shopping cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say, “It’s all right?” Well, it isn’t all right, so why don’t we say, “That hurt you stupid idiot?”

Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that’s falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?

In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat?

How come you never hear father-in-law jokes?

Americans invented the Internet, but the Japanese are running away with it. Broadband service there is eight to 30 times as fast as in the United States — and considerably cheaper.

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The use of profanity and expletives in films has always been controversial, but has increased significantly in recent years. Especially the use of the word “fuck” in media has always attracted criticism; in 2005 the documentary Fuck dealt entirely with this phenomenon.

This is a list of films containing at least 100 spoken uses of the word “fuck” (or one of its derivatives), ordered by the number of such uses.

Informative blog post, isn’t it?

Tech UK is reporting a startling new disc storage technology that could end the HD war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray: the Tera-Disc. So, how much data is that?

On a 1TB disc, you could store:

 - 212 DVD-quality movies
 - 250,000 MP3 files
 - 1,000,000 large Word documents

Mother of lord, that means seemless Magnum PI reruns!

Oh snap!

A teenager in New Jersey has broken the lock that ties Apple’s iPhone to AT&T’s wireless network, freeing the most hyped cell phone ever for use on the networks of other carriers, including overseas ones.

George Hotz, 17, confirmed Friday that he had unlocked an iPhone and was using it on T-Mobile’s network, the only major U.S. carrier apart from San Antonio-based AT&T that is compatible with the iPhone’s cellular technology.

While the possibility of switching from AT&T to T-Mobile may not be a major development for U.S. consumers, it opens up the iPhone for use on the networks of overseas carriers.

“That’s the big thing,” said Hotz, in a phone interview from his home in Glen Rock.

The phone, which combines an innovative touch-screen interface with the media-playing abilities of the iPod, is sold only in the U.S.

AT&T Inc. spokesman Mark Siegel said the company had no comment, and referred questions to Apple. A call to Apple was not immediately returned. Hotz said the companies had not been in touch with him.

The hack, which Hotz posted Thursday on his blog, is complicated and requires skill with both soldering and software. It takes about two hours to perform. Since the details are public, it seems likely that a small industry may spring up to buy U.S. iPhones, unlock them and send them overseas.

“That’s exactly, like, what I don’t want,” Hotz said. “I don’t want people making money off this.”

He said he wished he could make the instructions simpler, so users could modify the phones themselves.

“But that’s the simplest I could make them,” Hotz said.

The modification leaves the iPhone’s many functions, including a built-in camera and the ability to access Wi-Fi networks, intact. The only thing that won’t work is the “visual voicemail” feature, which shows voice messages as if they were incoming e-mail.

Hotz collaborated online with four other people, two of them in Russia, to develop the unlocking process.

“Then there are two guys who I think are somewhere U.S.-side,” Hotz said. He knows them only by their online handles.

Samsung recently paraded a version of its Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (DMFC) notebook that enables the notebook to run up to a month without the need for recharging. This will definitely go a long way in rendering standard lithium ion batteries used in notebooks today obsolete. The DMFC contains an energy density of 650Wh/L and a total energy storage of 1,200Wh, although plenty more could be done in the design department as the DMFC itself is nearly as wide as the notebook while standing almost twice as tall. It is hoped that in two to three years’ time, these DMFC-powered notebooks will be able to make a sexy splash into the market.

Hopefully the technology is translated into cellphones and iPods as well.

At its simplest level, Faceball involves two people hitting beachballs at each other’s faces. At a deeper level, it’s a vehicle for the release of personal animosity, and the Shaming of the Weak.

Damn for damn I wanna play!

Jug

In podcasting news, wire service Ananova reports that breast-implanted MP3 players may soon be on the horizon! BT Futurology analyst Ian Pearson has just predicted that such devices would sit conveniently within one breast, using Bluetooth-based controls located on a convenient wrist panel. The player could also be configured to reveal such valuable biometric diagnostics as blood pressure and heart murmurs, and serve as an early detection device for diabetes and breast cancer.

Ahh, ain’t science grand?