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ITwhirled
  Take a break from workday drudgery with ITwhirled. Each weekly installment covers the best in weird news, humor, gadgets, and all manner of offbeat items from the world of IT and beyond.


ISSUE ARCHIVE

May 12, 2008 - Violent video games OK for kids, say Harvard researchers ... 'Pixie dust' helps regrow severed digits
May 5, 2008 - Computer languages and facial hair ... Ancient Norse acquitted of homicide ... Real live tricorder invented
April 28, 2008 - Robot vigilante takes on hobos ... How to spot a hipster ... 5 easy ways to commit career suicide
April 21, 2008 - In-game marriage proposal succeeds ... Top 10 mistakes entrepreneurs make ... Women play it loose with passwords
April 14, 2008 - Top ten people to butter up before the recession hits ... April's coolest gadgets
April 7, 2008 - Study: Violent video games are relaxing ... Japanese to launch paper spaceplanes ... The computer ate my grades
March 31, 2008 - Five videos too good for YouTube ... Researchers: Glasses aren't geeky ... Scientists train suicidal fish
March 24, 2008 - 10 video formats HD DVD will meet in heaven ... Japan names cartoon ambassador ... Aussie sells his life on eBay
March 17, 2008 - Whiz kids: 10 overachievers under 21 ... Politician insults Web users on party Website ... Seven dirtiest IT jobs
March 10, 2008 - 10 broken technologies - and how to fix them ... Beware robo-turtle ... Geek comic: Kinkofry
March 3, 2008 - Crackpot technologies that could shake up IT ... 10 cubicles that are cooler than yours
February 25, 2008 - Harvard profs sell sexy science ... Bad idea: Amphibious convertible car ... Top 11 obsolete skills
February 18, 2008 - 40 fantastic Photoshopped images ... Sonic devices chase kids away ... Geek comic: Mandatory Fun Day
February 11, 2008 - Geek comic: Exploding Dog ... NASA taunts aliens with Beatles music ... Robot servants to pump gas
February 4, 2008 - The Internet's strangest communities ... Your biggest cell phone mistakes ... Top 10 useless inventions
January 28, 2008 - Tech's 25 biggest flops ... Curious histories of generic domains ... Top 10 funny Torvalds quotes
January 21, 2008 - 10 incredible old computer ads ... Payroll glitch caught after 5 years, $469,000
January 14, 2008 - 10 worst PC keyboards ever of all time ... Star Wars election guide ... Dangerous Wii play
January 7, 2008 - 5 coolest hacks of 2007 ... Egypt grapples with divorce via SMS ... Students sniff cow poo for science
December 31, 2007 - 7 unwritten rules of the Internet for 2007 ... New device lets you talk out your ear
December 24, 2007 - Does the Wii attract cockroaches? ... Fat-powered boat to set speed record ... Vaporware 2007
December 17, 2007 - Worst gadgets of 2007 ... Gaming skills help boy survive moose attack ... Infidelity a problem? Offset your cheating online
December 10, 2007 - Finding your inner Grinch ... Top 10 tech wonders that don't exist (yet) ... Strange tales of data disaster
December 3, 2007 - Exploding cell phone kills man - or does it? ... "Cell phone rage" costs judge's sanity, career ... 10 signs you're a cell phone addict
November 26, 2007 - Poor student? Blame your initials ... Top 10 ways to destroy earth ... Win a Wi-Fi Detector T-Shirt!
November 19, 2007 - Viral video's greatest hits ... 10 most confusing tech buzzwords ... How to be a jerk about Web 2.0
November 12, 2007 - NASA research to ease drunkenness ... Kids invent wedgie-proof underwear ... Top 30 failed tech predictions
November 5, 2007 - For sale on eBay: Pol Pot's limo ... 10 reasons software managers tend to suck ... Sam Adams v. Sam Adams
October 29, 2007 - The ugliest tech products ... Future to be blighted by Paris Hilton ... Top 10 Google products you forgot about
October 22, 2007 - Study: tech jobs NOT among the most depressing ... Texting driver broadsides train ... Mortifying moments in tech history
October 15, 2007 - Do you suffer from 'phantom BlackBerry syndrome'? ... E-mail-free Fridays catching on ... Pants on fire - due to iPod, not lies