The intarwebs are crawling with ways to express your undying devotion to your loved one today – must be something to do with the date. The one that really inspired me? Paying to have a message declaring your love printed on the side of a science satellite. If only I had a girlfriend who was geeky enough to understand how cool that really is… [Slashdot]

It’d really suck to travel miles to a job fair or interview, only to get home and find you hadn’t got it after all. Maybe in a year or two, all job interviews will be held in virtual worlds like Second Life. I certainly hope so – it’ll save me having to ever replace my threadbare (and only) suit.

Getting a poor signal from your remote controls? Want to boost the signal range a bit? Just stick the device under your chin, and allow some mysterious properties of the human cranium to amplify the signal. [Bruce Sterling]

Paranoiacs and conspiracy theorists, start checking your meals thoroughly or move to a clear broth diet – your tin-foil hat won’t help you now!

Even to a bona-fide computer obsessive, the to-and-fro over Vista’s DRM has been a bit tedious. What you need is the opinion of someone who takes an objective look at the customer baseline – someone like Bruce Schneier. And Mr. Schneier, he says ‘leave it well alone’.