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Ladies first

Tomorrow: The male brain Related posts: Is your writing masculine or feminine? Men are from RAM; women are from ROM How to argue with the female species

Is your writing masculine or feminine?

Want to find out if your writing style has a distinct feminine touch? Or does it reek of male chauvinism? Well then, check out Gender Genie, a website designed to predict whether a piece of writing is likely to have been written by a male or a female author. The tool is based on a… Read More »

More about men and women

Men are from RAM; women are from ROM

Five reasons to believe computers are male: 1. They have a lot of data, but are still clueless. 2. As soon as you have one, a better model comes along. 3. They look attractive – until you take them home. 4. Big power surges knock them out for the rest of the night. 5. In… Read More »

Tabloid journalism rears its ugly head online

The blog post titled “When a Crane Flies, Duck” by Joe Wilcox under Microsoft Watch not only flies in the face of good taste, the pun is also lame, to say the least. This creeping tabloidization, where heretofore respectable news organisations are succumbing to the subjects and techniques of tabloid journalism, exploits visceral emotions aimed… Read More »