For those who don’t know, heat kills electronic components. The hotter the temperature, the shorter the life expectancy; real hot temperatures will literally bake the silicon chips and ruin them. That’s why computer CPUs have heat sinks and fans on them so they don’t burn out. > more <

In the interest of helping visitors, I’m adding some of my Epinion reviews directly to my blog. Even though I have a feed coming directly from Epinions, it doesn’t always work so I thought it would be better to put a few of my reviews here, in “plain sight” as it were. The first one is for the Belkin Cushtop, a laptop “pillow”.

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Here’s a few humorous comments I found on Slashdot. Hopefully the context is sufficient to make sense.

Regarding a study that 6% of web users make up 50% of ad clicks:

“The Flash-based ‘Talking Woman’ has helped me.

When Mom calls long distance, Talking Woman is cheerful and polite in the background. Mom thinks I’ve finally found a nice girl and given up computers.”

“‘When Mom calls long distance,’

So calling the basement is long distance now? The phone company is ripping you off, man.”

“At least she isn’t tied up in the basement like his last girlfriend.”

“Dummies. We click, so you don’t have to.”