News from The New York Times that makes you want to take the tire around your 43-year-old midsection back to bed: Being fat is bad for your brain. That, at least, is the gloomy conclusion of several recent studies. For example, one long-term study of more than 6,500 people in northern California found that those…

He’s the 27-year-old Apple engineer who lost the top-secret new iPhone. He’s described as “tired and broken.” Ya think? Can you just imagine? “Mr. Jobs will see you now, son.” UPDATE: Gizmodo, which broke the news (and outed Gray Powell), explains why it wasn’t an Apple leak. For example: While the outing of Apple engineer…

Here’s a post that combines two of my favorite things: coffee and juvenile scatological humor. Naturally, I speak of the exceedingly rare and expensive coffee brewed from beans that have been treated inside the gut of a civet cat, then excreted whole out it’s civetty, catty rear end. With the stuff selling for over $200…

Sarah Peyton tracks the ups and downs of learning to live with the iPad — and because she’s in publishing, she wonders if it will kill the Kindle. Excerpt: I’ve owned a Kindle for about 6 months and it’s my trusty companion whenever I travel. The Kindle, my headlamp, and my iPhone sit on my…

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