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Fair and Balanced, but not necessarily smart.  I don’t think it’s the gambling that alters viewers brains.  Let’s take a deeper look at what Super Bowl fans will be doing.

Watching TV – I can see where studies show too much TV is bad, but I doubt a 4 hour show will cause harm.

Eating – Surely too many potato chips cant bet good for your spare tire, but I think Pringles are brain food*.

Hanging out with friends- The occasional high-five may cause a sore hand, but no brain damage here.

Drinking- DING DING DING, we have a winner.   Beer sales exceeding the GDP of some small countries* is sure to alter your brain more than putting $5 on a square.

via Super Bowl Gambling May Alter Your Brain.

*statistics made up

Tech Toilet regulars (ie, me) will notice the new look of Tech Toilet. That’s because google decided to change drop FTP/SFTP connections. The means if you want to use blogger, you have to let google host it. You can keep your domain name, but loose the server mgmt. I pay good money to host my sites, and decided to drop blogger. So long, wordpress looks better anyway.

Oh no! Zune pass! I don’t even know what this article is about, I just know anything zune related belongs on Techtoilet.

Zune Pass hit by wave of disappearing music? (Engadget)

It’s not what you think. Sure it exploits every single pixel in all it’s 1080p glory on my 50″ plasma, but it also streams Netflix. Netflix streaming is quite possibly the greatest thing to happen to TV since HD. I realize that’s not a long time, but the TV world has had many great invention (color, cable, LCD, Plasma, Brandsmart, just to name a few.) Hey look Letterman is on, be back later….

“If chrome is ported to other OS’s and nobody uses it, is it really a browser?”

I’m sure most of the techies will use this, but honestly, who cares. Chrome sucks, it doesn’t have the features firefox has and it doesn’t work on all the websites firefox does. Even if I could get past that, it doesn’t offer security to protect your passwords. I’m amazed that google brought chrome out of beta in like 4 nano seconds, yet GMail has carried its beta status proudly since the day it was born. Don’t get me wrong, I like google, heck I use just about every service they offer. But sometimes, they should stick to what they do best, web services.

Lifehacker – Chromium Releases Official Mac, Linux Browser Alphas – chromium

I’m a fan of Google Chrome and I like where it’s headed. But I can’t stop switching back to Firefox. There’s always something that sends me back. Tonight Chrome made some progress back to my heart. I tried the new Chrome 2 beta, wow. I like it. My favorite new feature after just a few minutes is the new side by side view. Have a look at the image I took and the video by google.

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Twitter has exploded. Not literally like so many techies would like it to. But I think once Oprah enters the ring, it’s safe to say a medium has exploded. For those techies who are moaning that the celebs have joined the party, I’ve got a great solution for you. Don’t follow them. Now, was that difficult. I think not. Make Twitter work for you, follow who you want to follow and be happy.

Here’s your link
http://www.yaybia.com/2009/04/twitter-suddenly-totally-uncool-too.html

It’s on Ebay, so I’m calling it tech. WTF!! I was talking about buying used RAM on ebay, and my coworker mentioned “Isn’t that like buying a used toothbrush?” I didn’t think so, but it gave me an idea. I checked, and sure enough someone is selling a used toothbrush, only used once! I’m watching it just to see if it gets purchased. Who is nutty enough to want to buy this crap!
Used toothbrush!

This guy must be quite lonely, I can’t imagine there are many folks out there with good words about WindowsME. I imagine for the few who had their system work longer than 30 minutes, they may have had a chance to use these features. I, however, choose to forget I ever installed it…. but I think I still have the install disc. crapiness rating 4/10 turds.
Why Windows Me deserves more respect – istartedsomething

Sweet! My ‘bran’ needs a workout…wait… that’s gross.
crap-o-meter: 3/10 turds
I4U News – New Program Promises to Train your Brain: “A company called Posit Science Corp. released a program today called InSight that promises to give your bran a workout.”