Flickerdown investigates the psychology of benchmarking

AN ARTICLE AT Flickerdown investigates the psychological factors in benchmarking with reference to the Dogs of Pavlov. Is there any objective truth to the concept? Check it out here.

The hard boys at [H]ardOCP have a nice picture of notebook meltdown on their site today.

JC takes a critical look at the introduction of the Athlon XP 2600+ here.

Rosa Wong writes to ask us if we want to send 14.5 million emails out to people. Thanks Rosa, but better not, eh?

Anandtech reviews Gigabyte's Radeon 9700 Pro just here.

Amazing Gadgets writes to ask us if we want to buy its Military Superbright LED for only $6, so we can see our front door lock from a mile away. It says we've opted in to the spam. We've emailed the spam to Rosa.

OC Workbench previews the Asus P4S8X which uses the little SIS 648 at this point in Cyberspace.

There's a piece of technology which will let you work on the planet Mars, courtesy of IBM, and here.

Tobitech has tested the Neon Strings and they seem to pluck all right. The information is here.

Great Offers asks us whether our home loan is too high. We refer Great Loans to Rosa Wong.

Overclockers Club has an article about how to install a window in a DVD ROM or CD drive, and placing an LED therein. Here.

And Accelenation reviews an MSI 845E mobo called the Max 2 - a review which you will find here.

There's a review of Dungeon Siege over at 8 Dimensional.

Delphi Forums suggests we might need Ehealthinsurance. We have dropped Rosa a line to see if she's interested and have asked our heart surgeon whether having arteries overclocked is a useful piece of hardware modification.

We overloaded the page we linked to from Carly Fiorina's champagne party earlier today. This site is the Ultimate Alan Greenspan Teen Dream Fan Page and needs much wider exposure... µ