Category: News

Ever wonder what happened to your high school valedictorian? He or she might just have wound up in Washington, D.C. That metro area has the nation’s highest percentage of residents with college degrees.

The phrase of the day boys and girls is “Toasted Skin Syndrome.” It was going to be “roasted nuts” but apparently Planters has that trademarked.

Have you ever worked on your laptop computer with it sitting on your lap, heating up your legs? If so, you might want to rethink that habit. Doing it a lot can lead to “toasted skin syndrome,” an unusual-looking mottled skin condition caused by long-term heat exposure, according to medical reports.

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The makers of high fructose corn syrup want to sweeten its image with a new name: corn sugar. The Corn Refiners Association applied Tuesday to the federal government for permission to use the name on food labels. The group hopes a new name will ease confusion about the sweetener, which is used in soft drinks, bread, cereal and other products.

Americans’ consumption of corn syrup has fallen to a 20-year low on consumer concerns that it is more harmful or more likely to cause obesity than ordinary sugar, perceptions for which there is little scientific evidence.

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Do you like ‘green’ computers and also want to reduce the cost of high priced fancy cases? Recompute has the solution for you in their cardboard encased case. Just be certain not to employ a Cyrix chip or you may burn down your computer.

For those of you that missed it this weekend, here is a nine minute video of Gearbox showing off Duke Nukem Forever to a live audience. Good stuff but, be warned, there is adult language used throughout the clip.

We expend bunches of keystrokes detailing how to recover from disaster, everything from sweeping spyware from your system to how to get your data back from the digital graveyard, but equally important is how to avoid potentially catastrophic scenarios in the first place. As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, or in in the world of PCs, hours of frustration.

On the flip side, maybe you have a masochistic desire to destroy your system. What better way to force your hand at upgrading then to render your current rig all but unusable? We don’t condone killing hundreds, perhaps thousands of dollars of hardware, but hey, it’s your stuff at stake, and how you choose to use (or abuse) it is up to you.

Either way, follow along as we show you the 10 worst things you can do to your PC and how to avoid them.