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It's not like I spend all my time on the road but, even so, I tend to like smaller form-factor stuff. Thus I decided to add a netbook to my collection prior to my latest bout of travelling.

Perhaps going from my 1920x1200 24" desktop monitor to a 1024x600 8.9" display will help make me a little more sensitive to those operating at low resolution.

My biggest pet peeve amongst the four above resides in the bottom left corner - there the show has no other point beyond the pretend "science".

[H]ere is a health alert we can all understand. Researchers at the University of Sussex have determined that the very best way to relieve stress, both physical and mental, is to read a book. Got your attention?

As reported in The Telegraph, the researchers found that stress levels and heart rate showed a 68% reduction in measurable stress after reading from a book. After achieving a high stress level through exercise and mental tests, just six minutes of reading slowed the heart rate and decreased other measures of physical stress in the muscles. Reading reduced stress to levels even lower than the baseline before the high stress was reached.

Excerpted from: Albert Mohler

I seem to remember a similar story in Montreal a couple of years ago wherein a reporter did something similar.

Two men in baseball caps and windbreakers breached the perimeter of Pearson International Airport on Sunday. Stepping out of a van on a public roadway, then passing through doorways they spent half an hour lingering around the tarmac.

They spoke to airport workers, but faced no questions as to what credentials they had used to gain access to one of Canada's most important transportation hubs. If anyone had bothered to ask, they might have been shocked.

One of the visitors was federal Transport Minister John Baird. The other was Colin Kenny, the Liberal who chairs the Senate's national security committee. On that rainy afternoon they decided to leave their partisanship behind in Ottawa to fly to Toronto to check on airport security themselves.

What they found alarmed them.

"No one stopped us. No one asked for a pass," said Mr. Kenny in an interview. "It's not mischievous, it's due diligence."

Source: Globe and Mail