Interesting

Floppies!

I used to love installing software, inserting disc 1 of 34!
via download squad

Remember when software used to come on disks, not discs? You know, the old floppies that could hold a whopping 1.2 or even 1.4MB of storage? Well, one Firefox enthusiast over at Spread Firefox decided to see how many disks it would take [...]


Seriously

I was bored so I decided to clean out my spam trap and found this gem.  What makes it unusual is that it wasn’t hocking some kind of perverse sex site.  It has a link to some UK golf site & a marriage equality site. 

First off, ataxophemia is not spelled correctly, it should be ataxiophemmia, [...]


Nowhere but Texas

Very interesting program on the local PBS station KERA called Nowhere but Texas. The opening segment featured a story about the Gainesville Community Circus. “Gainesville Community Circus” The television special opens with the remarkable story of the acclaimed Gainesville Community Circus, an amateur, three-ring circus – complete with high-wire acts, clowns and tamed animals. The [...]


What’s in a name?

When I started out on the internet back in the early 90’s I was the only Junyor out there.  Fast forward to 2007 and a Google search of the term “junyor” returns a whopping 43,600 results.  I know what you are thinking, “wow Junyor, you are famous.”  Although that is true, many of the results are not [...]


No More Fear

MIT biochemists identified the molecular mechanism that creates fear and successfully cured it in mice. Give it a few years and you can kiss that nagging fear of public speaking goodbye!       [via lifehacker.com]