Posts tagged as "addiction"

Posted by Markus on 14th May 2009

The effects of sleep deprivation

I’m sure this topic is pretty close at heart for many people in this day and age, so I thought I would post this short article here as well. Ironically, I have been postponing this post for over a month because of – you guessed it, lack of sleep and choosing whether to write something [...]

Posted by Markus on 2nd May 2009

eBooking it up

Nearly a month ago I wrote a post titled eBooks, Kindle and the iPhone about turning my last fortress of old technology books into the electronic. I did have to finish a thousand page book first, taking quite a while since I pretty much only have time to read on my twenty minute commute. After [...]

Posted by Markus on 31st March 2009

Car junkie

I love cars. I can’t help it. Since the day I got my driver’s license I’ve either had nearly unlimited access to a car or had my own. Ironically, I’ve always lived in regions with very good public transportation and I’ve really not needed a car. So, as of Friday I don’t have my car [...]

Posted by Markus on 11th May 2006

Addicted

Ars Technica is running an article about web addiction and the article (Ars Article) is nice and well-written, like their material usually is. But the fun thing here is a link to a Internet Addiction Test, which looks like something someone has just word-replaced the word alcohol with internet and otherwise copied the same test. [...]