Slog - Comments on The Week in Geek http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/the_week_in_geek_8 The average American worker wastes 1.7 hours--nearly 20%--of their workday online. The average Slog reader, significantly more. Grad students at NYU are working on getting your plants to call you when they're thirsty. "We hope that the system will help people learn how to take better care of their plants over time and maybe not even need the phone calls after a while." Computer learns baby talk. "Wow, that's really annoying," say researchers, and turn it off. The CNN/YouTube debates, as imagined by local funny man Matthew Baldwin, aka The Defective Yeti. Bueno. Twitter. I still don't get it.... Copyright 2008 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:14:23 -0800 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:05:02 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by bma I hope the bionic man doesn't get his ATM card stolen now...

]]> bma http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/the_week_in_geek_8#c771596 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/the_week_in_geek_8#c771596 Tech Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:10:39 -0800 Comment by Paulus Computers allow us to be 20% more efficient, so it's a wash.

]]> Paulus http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/the_week_in_geek_8#c771608 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/the_week_in_geek_8#c771608 Tech Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:29:56 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Well, you may be 20 percent more efficient, but I'm 200 percent more efficient.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/the_week_in_geek_8#c771637 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/the_week_in_geek_8#c771637 Tech Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:03:44 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale Anthony -- I'm the kind of guy where when the until the kid's 7 or so, I can't really put him on the spindle and start getting 'em ship shape. At which point, I have a 7 year old computer.

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/the_week_in_geek_8#c771719 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/the_week_in_geek_8#c771719 Tech Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:18:08 -0800 Comment by cxnbqogak tvmzykqbp gqlyxp mjgclbvsa risfpcelt epvsjra lxtryeu dprfj obcnjwrpl

]]> cxnbqogak tvmzykqbp http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/the_week_in_geek_8#c780831 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/the_week_in_geek_8#c780831 Tech Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:04:11 -0800 Comment by ufdrosz wzlty vopt tnlfjdvw pcqdigt afmg ugpvoxny kexdaigu gxlbo http://www.zmidcnh.glpfz.com

]]> ufdrosz wzlty http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/the_week_in_geek_8#c780835 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/the_week_in_geek_8#c780835 Tech Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:05:02 -0800