The Daily Dozen

1. Turn any monitor into an all-in-one computer.
2. Caring for an ailing spouse may prolong your life.
3. Foxit adds more reasons to ditch Adobe Reader on PCs.
4. Homemade backyard digital observatory's images rival Hubble's.
5. Women in Papua New Guinea kill all male babies to keep them from raging war. Rather than giving sympathy for the male infants who were killed, this journalist expresses far more sympathy for the women. Dr. Helen sums it up well: "Pathetic."
6. Turn ho-hum color into WOW! with Photoshop.
7. 10 surefire steps to beating blogger's block.
8. How to use mindmaps to help you write.
9. Russ Roberts talks with Eric Rauchway about the Great Depression and the New Deal. [Podcast]
10. People trying to avoid Vista are buying used PCs to salvage copies of Windows XP.
11. Is Googling good for the brain?
12. The end of childhood? "Here are two headlines from yesterday's New York Times: Plea Deal is Offered to 8-Year-Old and Parents Look to Genetic Test to Guide Children to the Right Sport"