Thu Tu’s Blog

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/09/screensaver.kids/index.html
If you love kids and want a practical screensaver, you might want to check out the Missing Children Screensaver to help find missing kids. I think it's pretty cool that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has come up with a modern version of milk carton ads. Plus, instead of getting one photo [...]

from CNN: Woman: Blame devil for infant in microwave
Um, wow. A man puts his baby girl into a microwave for 10 to 20 seconds and his wife claims that the devil made him do it.
When I described myself as an atheist to someone, he called me a "devil worshiper." My response was that someone who [...]

From Wired: Virginia Tech Lesson: Rare Risks Breed Irrational Responses
The article discusses how our brains are not very good about judging the probability of rare yet horrible events, and consequently overreacting to them.
Here are some interesting tidbits:

"We fear being murdered, kidnapped, raped and assaulted by strangers, when it's far more likely that the perpetrator of [...]

http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/003904.html
As someone who loves to read the news, the Google Personalized homepage is really handy for me. Now Google has added a new feature to add a little pizazz to the page: dynamic themes. When I first read the initial announcements I didn't expect much... just the ability to change colors.
When the feature was finally [...]

Colorado Woman Sues To Hold Web Crawlers To Contracts
The Internet Archive, archive.org, goes around the web and stores copies of websites indefinitely. This is a useful resource when the information is no longer available and you want to view a copy of it. It's not so great for webmasters who want to have no evidence [...]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/10/elderly.robbed.ap/ A guy pretended to offer to help an old woman. He then punched her in the face and took her purse, netting 33 dollars in cash.
Loser mugger. This reminds me of the time in kindergarten or elementary school when my grandmother was walking me to school. This guy starting walking with us and acting [...]

Sony execs and fans are doing all they can to differentiate Playstation 3 from the Wii, to the point of saying PS3 shouldn't be compared to the Wii. They're right. I didn't consider buying a PS3, so Sony didn't lose a customer, but Nintendo gained one.
From all my Wii posts, I might come across as [...]