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“We’re here. We’re old. Get the f**k used to it.” [Edited for those of you who find the English language offensive.]
Mark Cuban, the dude who sold broadcast.com for $500 million before the internet bubble burst, recently vented about the media constantly writing articles about how anyone over the age of 30 seems incapable of adapting [...]

Does your child or grandchild look like Mark Zuckerberg? Right down to the Adidas flip-flops? Congratulations! He or she too could be the founder of a billion dollar company! Mark is the founder of Facebook, that online social network the younger generation loathes your presence on. Ideas don’t require wearing a suit, so mellow out [...]

Customer service, I think we can all agree, is not what it used to be in the age before technology replaced human beings on the other end of the help line. The indeterminable wait that results from calling a customer service line produces only one result: apoplexy, which, translated from the Greek means seizure. Your [...]

Okay ladies, perhaps it’s time to refresh your desktop with a little ab candy wallpaper from Abercrombie & Fitch. If it’s good enough for your granddaughters, then what the hey, it’s good enough for you, right…
Ab Wallpaper

© Mike Reed
The term “flame warrior” describes a certain personality that lurks in the bowels of online discussion boards. Artist Mike Reed had the original idea of taking these personality and giving them a life as an image. Witness Toxic Granny. Per Mike, “Warriors often underestimate Toxic Granny’s fighting abilities. She can be very aggressive, [...]

The more you stimulate your brain, the less likely you are to suffer from cognitive impairment later in life, especially from nasty diseases like Alzheimer’s…at least that’s what a host of new companies are saying as they push their brain games into the marketplace.

Here’s a rundown of what’s out there:

Posit Science Brain Fitness Program
The Brain [...]

The latest statistics on senior web usage show that using the internet has overtaken do-it-yourself projects and gardening as the most popular activity. Seniors spend on average 6 hours a week, mostly emailing (84%), searching (83%), buying travel tickets (45%), banking (35%), and reading the news (28%). Tough to garden in the winter…
Telegraph: Surfing [...]

If you’re traveling to San Antonio, Texas by wheelchair and need internet access, then the Good Bytes Cafe is for you. Universal design reigns supreme here, providing technology access that eliminates the usual barriers to use.

Designed to provide technology resources for individuals with disabilities or barriers to work. The latest in assistive technologies for individuals [...]

The punchline at the end is priceless…

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Revelations don’t have to be religious, you know. I was momentarily stunned to learn that nearly half of Mac owners are 55 and older. Isn’t it nice to know all that rebelliousness still lives!
In its latest batch of adverts, Apple painted the Mac as the young, cool face of desktop computing. But now research has [...]

If you can read this story and not feel an ounce of anger, then by god road rage is certainly not one of your afflictions!
After walking the Great Wall of China and making plans for a trip to Russia, Shirley Greening-Jackson thought signing up for a new internet service would be a doddle. But the [...]

Attacker Beats Elderly Sacramento Woman
KCRA TheKCRAChannel.com via Yahoo! News Fri, 01 Sep 2006 4:31 PM PDT
Police are looking for a man who attacked an elderly Sacramento woman in her home.

Elderly man wanted for questioning
News 14 Carolina Sat, 02 Sep 2006 9:49 AM PDT
FAYETTEVILLE — The Cumberland County’s sheriff’s office is searching for an elderly California [...]