Becky!, Beckham turned email client, has been updated recently and nicely. That Becky! 2.20 lets you save searches and their results to virtual folders, that you can sync mail with ... Read More

Elephants are not only beautiful, cute and talkative, they are also remarkable all-terrain and all-weather animals — they even feel at home in late February emails: ›› Send an email with ... Read More

I have always wanted to learn and practice the age-old game of Go. Although current computer Go programs are still relatively weak (not relative to me, of course) are getting ... Read More

Taking advantage of some characteristics of the Gregorian calendar, you can calculate what day of the week any date was, is or will be. Of course, there is a web ... Read More

About one in every ten persons is a Chinese woman, and there are 79,500,000 internet users in China, so the chance that your female email penpal is from China is ... Read More

Qurb, the spam filter that knows spam by knowing who you know, knows even more now. Qurb 3 searches your emails and other data (contacts, tasks and calendar items in ... Read More

Have you seen the crotchless portafilter yet? Looks pretty cool, does it not? But have you tasted a Java Chai? But have you seen this stationery? ›› Un espresso, prego.

If you tell me a story — about a cat changing your computer's clock, for example —, you can be sure that I will retell the story to somebody else. ... Read More

In Orson Welles's 1955 movie Mr. Arkadin, this Mr Arkadin, who says he suffers from amnesia, is challenged to prove what every one of us is most sure of, his ... Read More

On February 21, 1947, Edwin Herbert Land presented at a meeting of the Optical Society of America the Polaroid Land camera, which, using film that has the whole developing process ... Read More

Have you ever spent a night in the mountains? This is what you get to see in the morning when the sun slowly climbs the hills, and this is what ... Read More

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, the persistent fear of long words (and river horses?), is one of the diagnoses that are probably better not referred to by name. Does it help that this disorder ... Read More

Do you use your Inbox as a to-do list? Do you file messages into folders or do you throw everything in once place and rely on search? How do you ... Read More

FeedDemon, the smart little daimonion that tells you what to read, is updated and learns to podcast media files enclosed in feeds to any media player. Also new in FeedDemon ... Read More

Washing "machines" (the scrub board) date back to as early as 1797, and the first washing machine to use a drum was patented by James King in 1851. But there ... Read More

On Mondays, Brussels is closed. There is just one curious building that opens its doors to a freezing city: le Palais Mondial with its Autoworld. One of the great cars ... Read More

If you look for quotations on quotations, you will find Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great American essayist, say "The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote ... Read More

ICQ 5, another version in the long history of ICQ, the original instant messaging client from Tel Aviv, brings not only voice and video chat but also Push2Talk for walkie-talkie ... Read More

If you have always wanted to paint with letters in a literal sense, like this (maybe not like this, though), take a look at JavE, a wonderful free ASCII art ... Read More

Going from super-secret admirer to semi-secret admirer by sending an email — using cute stationery, for example, though that may prevent you from doing it anonymously — is an adventure ... Read More

We are much better managing our money than we are managing our time. We are perfectly correct to value time now more than time in the future — half an ... Read More

If love is the message, the medium is often the problem. Flowers are nice, but the colors can have a meaning of their own. Trees do not have unexpected meanings, ... Read More

In a very interesting paper, Serge Mister and Robert Zuccherato have demonstrated how the OpenPGP protocol, used for secure encrypted emails, can be attacked to decipher an encrypted message without ... Read More

So you want to start, write, begin, publish, continue or finish a book? At 43 Things, you can track and share the things you want to do in life, and ... Read More

While AOL claims the spam problem is solved others are anxiously reporting spam "zombies" will make the email system implode by sending googols of junk emails through ISP's SMTP servers, ... Read More

Is cupid the son of Zeus — who my Greek teacher insisted is properly pronounced "ze-ous" — (or Ares?) and Venus, the creation of chaos and earth, offspring of Hermes ... Read More

Outshone by almost a dozen security fixes for Windows, outstripped by Ask Jeeves buying Bloglines and outmatched by Microsoft buying Sybari, an anti-virus and anti-spam company, Microsoft also freshly updated ... Read More

"We are paying him too much, but he's worth it." is one of Samuel Goldwyn's wonderful and witty (maybe inadvertently witty, but I wouldn't say so) sayings. Waggr is short of ... Read More

Read a good book, register it at BookCrossing and share it by putting the book somewhere, maybe somewhere remote. Whoever finds it will read your good book, records it at ... Read More

If you cut an apple or a banana, just as the wonderful smell and the delightful expectation makes your mouth water, the slices take on a brownish color that does ... Read More

And now here on Lee Circle, the 1500 meter butterfly mask finals: Dress your emails for Fat Tuesday. (Outlook, Outlook Express)

A portafilter is an essential, but relatively simple component of an espresso machine. And yet it is possible to omit part of it: the even more essential crotchless portafilter looks ... Read More

Now that the FBI has officially abandoned Carnivore, you don't have to share your emails with such an unfortunately misnamed tool, at least. There are still packet sniffers catching internet ... Read More

It's Setsubun in Japan, the day beans fly low. While throwing beans on Setsubun, you are supposed to say "Oni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!" ("Demons out, happiness in!"). This nice ... Read More

Did you know that the first tin (not thin) cans, appearing in the first half of the 19th century, could only be cracked open using a hammer? Only later, thinner ... Read More

To deliver a message with just a flower, you need to (or had better, at least) know their and their color's meanings. A mistake might not be that bad, however, ... Read More

While one form of carbon, diamonds, are the hardest known minerals, another form, graphite, is one of the softest substances. While graphite is a semiconductor, diamonds are good insulators. Graphite ... Read More

I have already told this story in the newsletter, so to to those of you who are subscribers and (or just, but at least) readers it will come at no ... Read More