I of course liked this article by Ashley Nelson which lists four reasons women dig geeks (I would have put “digg geeks”).  Here is a quick summary of the article in case you don’t have time to read the whole thing:

• Defense #1: Bad Boys Don’t Always Finish First
• Defense #2: Is That Your Protractor in Your Pocket? Nerds Are the Best Lovers
• Defense #3: Intelligence—A Crucial Piece of the Pi
• Defense #4: Nerds Know Who They Are and How to Rock It

“Because really, how many of us are inherently the jock or the prom queen at the end of the day? Isn’t there a little nerdiness in all of us?”   Source: http://www.divinecaroline.com/

Hearing that Hulu may start charging for its service in the near future.  Depending on how much I may pay if they would offer HD shows.  Source: http://gawker.com/

(Brian L. Frank for The Wall Street Journal)

In America today, even people without street addresses feel compelled to have Internet addresses, but staying wired on the streets takes determination.  >> Read the full article (very interesting).

This just in from the Department of Duh: Cap’N Crunch Crunch Berries are not a fruit.  Last month, a judge in California dismissed a claim brought by a woman who believed PepsiCo, the parent company of Cap’N Crunch manufacturer Quaker Oaks, had misled “reasonable consumers” with its colorful Crunch Berries.  “Plaintiff contends that the colorful Crunchberries, combined with use of the word ‘berry’ in the Product name, convey the message that Cap’n Crunch is not all sugar and starch, but contains redeeming fruit,” the opinion says.  Find out what Judge Morrison C. England Jr. thought after the jump. “This Court is not aware of, nor has Plaintiff alleged the existence of, any actual fruit referred to as a ‘crunchberry,’” England writes in the May 21 opinion brought to our attention by the blog Lowering the Bar. “Furthermore, the ‘Crunchberries’ depicted on the PDP [principal display panel] are round, crunchy, brightly-colored cereal balls, and the PDP clearly states both that the Product contains ‘sweetened corn & oat cereal’ and that the cereal is ‘enlarged to show texture.’  “Thus, a reasonable consumer would not be deceived into believing that the Product in the instant case contained a fruit that does not exist,” he said.

Source >> Lowering the Bar

“March 3, 2009 (MOLINE, Ill.) (WLS) — More than 100 people in one Illinois town were the recipients of pay-it-forward acts of kindness at a coffee shop.

A customer used the drive through at a Starbucks in Moline over the weekend. That person paid for his or her drink and the order of the person in the next car. That started a chain reaction of people paying for the next customer’s drinks.

Before it was all over, 160 customers took part.

Apparently a similar chain happened in Moline around the holidays as well. Some people in line even dropped $5 or $10 to pay for the next several drinks.”

Source: http://abclocal.go.com/

“Germany is considering a nationwide ban on the high-energy drink Red Bull Cola after traces of cocaine were found in it.”   >> Read more