Nerve Endings Firing Away

'Undetected rapists' on campus: A case study that uses Texas A&M to highlight problems of repeat offenders #TAMU #pb

I thought I’d pick out a sampling of my favorite blog entries from the last five-ish years—with a special focus on the older hints that still work in Leopard and Snow Leopard. These aren’t necessarily the best hints, or the most popular hints, but ones that I just find personally interesting and/or useful. In no particular order, here they are.

Collecting and watching video is one task every personal Mac is put to use for. While QuickTime or VLC can play pretty much any kind of file you throw at it, it’s a lot better to get video to reside in your iTunes library. iTunes is the the most fussy video manager, mostly because Apple wants you to buy content from their store, but it’s also your one way ticket to watching video on your iPhone, iPod, iPad, or AppleTV. So you have to learn to deal with it.
Here’s a little guide, on using some of the video converters on the Mac, that will make sure the process is as smooth as can be.

Designer Steven Heller traces the evolution of the tiny symbols for each Olympic sport since their appearance in 1936

There's no escaping the fact that many of the vehicle-blamed accidents reported were actually caused by driver error (something Toyota will never say out loud), and many of the owners of these automobiles know that. As noted before, brakes always win out over engines, even at full throttle; that has been tested and proved many times in the past 20 years, including recent Car and Driver tests on Toyotas. So, if someone claims a car was speeding out of control and the brakes refused to work, from an engineering viewpoint that claim is instantly suspect.