砂之椅子

2005/02/25美國伊利諾州一名女子利用她與男友口交後所得的男友精液懷孕生子，結果被男友控告詐欺和竊盜，伊利諾州上訴法院24日做出重要判決，指男子在敦倫過程中送出的精液，屬於送給對方的一種「絕對無法返還的禮物」，女方事後若利用這些精液進行人工懷孕並生子，不構成詐欺或竊盜罪名。

這起發生在兩名男女醫師之間的奇特案件必須追溯到6年前，原告菲利普斯和被告艾恩絲兩人曾有過肉體接觸。兩年後，菲利普斯突遭艾恩絲提起一名小孩的確認生父之訴，隨後的DNA檢驗，證實他確為孩子的生父，必須支付每月800美元的養育費。菲利普斯認為自己被女方「設計」，向法院提出詐欺、竊盜及連帶的民事賠償告訴。
菲利普斯向法院指稱，對方有計畫地利用兩人某次口交機會欺騙並竊得他的精液來懷孕生子。事發後他身陷夢魘之苦，且因過度煩惱和精神壓力，導致長時間飲食及睡眠失調，為此他決控告對方。艾恩絲則以她的行為不算過度極端、對方所稱的精神痛苦還不到需要賠償的程度作為抗辯。

上訴法院認定，男人送出的精液屬收受者「擁有絕對產權」的禮物，支持下級法院所作艾恩絲勝訴的判決。唯判決指出，若原告所說艾恩絲利用口交取得精液來懷孕屬實，的確可能對菲利普斯造成精神傷害，因而裁定將精神傷害的民事官司發回原審法院重審。

菲利普斯在上訴法院做出判決後，尚未對外發表意見，艾恩絲的律師則從親情角度對精神傷害官司發回重審表示不滿。他說：「孩子現已5歲，孩子若得知自己出生令父親痛苦，叫他情何以堪！」

2005.02.25　 中時晚報
【新聞分析】精子 不算動產
黃哲民

外電報導女子幫男友口交時「私吞」對方精液，事後吐出來進行人工受孕成功，卻被男友反控竊盜。法界人士聽說這個案例大多捧腹，笑稱這種事發生在國內的話，也很難構成竊盜罪，因為我國竊盜罪名處罰的是「財產犯罪」，但是精子目前還不算是可以「自由買賣交易」的物品呢。

刑法第320條的竊盜罪，是指「意圖為自己或第三人不法之所有，而竊取他人之動產」。所謂「動產」，必須是有價值，且能在市面流通交易的物品，例如車子、珠寶。
目前雖然有「精子銀行」的存在，捐精者或許也可取得一些報酬，不過精子畢竟還無法稱斤論兩的賣。

法界人士說，人體器官至今還不能合法公開交易，何況只是「器官分泌物」的精子，自然算不上「動產」，頂多屬於民法上定義的「物」。但是「物」的主人既然拋棄佔有，撿到的人當然沒有竊盜責任。

「沒幾個男人會在嘿咻後，還跟女方要回自己的分泌物吧」，1位男檢察官笑著說。另1位男法官指出，男人在「射」了之後，和那坨「分泌物」的關係，就有如民法觀念中的「拋棄佔有」，基於「無主物先佔」的原則，女方拿走當戰利品也不犯法，除非男的表態要拿回去。「不過這種事很難開口耶」。

更有趣的是，有人戲稱，法官駁回男方的指控，因為這是女方的「勞務所得」。聽到這個結果，法官檢察官笑得肚子都痛了，紛紛好奇這是哪個國家的創意判決。因為在國內，大家關切的，應該是小孩出生後衍生的監護、扶養與繼承等一大堆的頭痛事呢。


2005.02.25　 中時晚報
口交留精 擒色狼
戴志揚/台北報導

日前國內也發生一件女子「智取惡狼」的性侵害案件，一名女子夜歸時回家，遭到不名歹徒一路尾隨，等待該名女子開啟公寓大門時，歹徒竟然在樓梯間持出尖刀，將該名女子押上頂樓，然後試圖予以性侵害。

但是該名女子強烈反抗，並哀求歹徒，謊稱自己月事來潮不方便，希望放過她一馬，但是這匹惡狼仍露出兇殘的本性，要求女子替她口交，並變態的射精在其口中，事後從容的逃逸。
該名女子慘遭摩爪之後，卻處變不驚，口中含著精液倉皇逃回家中，並將精液吐在一條手帕上，梳洗完畢後，然後帶著「證物」前往警局報警。

警方最後根據該名女子提供的「證物」，經過刑事局比對DNA，意外的發現與一名經常橫行於台北縣市，曾經犯下多起性侵害案件的歹徒吻合，最後將該名惡狼順利逮捕到案。

偵辦該起案件的警方相當佩服被害人的冷靜，並認為這是一起女性遭受性侵害時，能準確保存證物的最佳示範。

警方強調，當女性遭受性侵害時，不管事前或是事後，千萬不可以慌張，除了可以防止激起歹徒的慾望之外，還可以留下歹徒重要的跡證，此舉對於警方擒捕惡狼時，絕對有重要的幫助。

2005.02.25　 中時晚報 羅蘭巴特(Roland Barthes)在他著名的神話學(Mythologie)一書中寫道：「對法國來說，葡萄酒就像是她特有的財產，它是法國的圖騰飲料…」，可不是嗎，說到法國特產，第一個提到的就是葡萄酒。

法國人對葡萄酒的確情有獨鍾，不過隨著生活型態改變、對飲食健康的注重、對酗酒問題的宣導，法國人每年喝下的葡萄酒量比起30年前減少了40％。
隨著時代變遷，這個圖騰飲料的光環逐漸沾上污點。酗酒問題最先讓葡萄酒的高尚大打折扣：法國和許多其他國家不同的是，酗酒人口大多依賴葡萄酒，而非烈酒或啤酒。接下來是酒後駕車造成的事故：每年交通死亡事故30％的元凶就是酒。

1990年衛生部長Evin頒布一道禁令：為了減低煙酒消耗量，禁止法國出現任何菸酒(烈酒除外)廣告，這條法令稱為Evin法。

酒農酒商們度了幾個小月，終於受不了而出言抱怨，須知酒國中不乏權、錢在握的有力人士，抱怨立即傳到政府耳裡，以速件處理，無視醫療、社福團體反對聲浪，議會已於2月份通過二讀，即將放寬對葡萄酒廣告的限制。

新規範要求廣告不可危害公眾健康，然而廣告的訴求不就是要「刺激消費」嗎？這個弔詭的界線是：廣告可以突顯葡萄酒的顏色、氣味、口感、產地，但不能邀請人飲用，是「告知性」而非「刺激性」；就像我告知你「這個女人金髮碧眼、巨乳豐臀、脣紅齒白、小蠻腰…」，可是「我沒叫你跟她上床」，虛偽的程度比假道學還假，大概只有政客能夠掌握。

2005.02.24 蛋包飯（omlette）帶給人的幸福感覺，日劇迷已在竹內結子挑綱演出的「午餐女王」中表露無遺，一切開金黃色的蛋皮，濃濃鮮活的蛋汁就順著珍珠般的白飯流了出來，這樣的蛋包飯，現在到西門町就吃得到，而且一開就是專賣店，一口氣推出10種口味，價錢從99元到230元不等，試賣近1個月來果然反應熱絡。本周六上午11點半，還有免費招待前50位拿著自行彩繪彩蛋報到的消費者，免費吃基本款「黃金歐姆蛋包飯」的活動。

國內第一家蛋包飯專賣店「蛋蛋屋」是麻布茶房、香芙蕾、代官山系列店的姊妹店，由展圓國際從日本引進國內。這次還結合西雅圖咖啡連鎖店，結合咖啡與蛋包飯的美味，豐富下午茶選擇。旗艦店就選在哈日族最常逛的西門町真善美戲院樓下。
蛋包飯的基本元素是金黃蛋皮再加上炒至珍珠般的白飯，非要透過熟練高超的捲蛋包飯的手藝，蛋包飯才能完美無瑕送到消費者面前。蛋蛋屋私下表示，光是為了訓練員工能把蛋包飯做得漂漂亮亮，沒有破損，就不知消耗了幾百箱的鮮雞蛋！

在蛋蛋屋，「歐姆」成了蛋包飯的代稱。在風味上，蛋蛋屋的蛋包飯為了和一般和風料理店有區隔，研發了10種口味，區分為3個系列，包括黃金系列、焗烤系列和幸福系列，最便宜的是99元的茄汁歐姆，野菜奶油歐姆則是淋上白醬汁，每份120元。喜歡吃辣，不妨選擇150元的和風麻婆歐姆。幸福系列的日式豬排歐姆人氣很高，即使價位達200元，但是一切開蛋皮，就有蛋汁流出，愛吃蛋包飯的人就是要這個視覺和味覺上都滿足的感受。

蛋包飯（omlette）帶給人的幸福感覺，日劇迷已在竹內結子挑綱演出的「午餐女王」中表露無遺，一切開金黃色的蛋皮，濃濃鮮活的蛋汁就順著珍珠般的白飯流了出來，這樣的蛋包飯，現在到西門町就吃得到（見圖，陳君瑋攝）

Whether they're strapped to our belts, sitting on our desks, or jammed in an overstuffed closet, we absolutely love our gadgets.

So it wasn't exactly easy coming up with the definitive list of the 100 best gadgets ever unleashed. In the weeks we spent debating the entries, tempers were flared, fingers were pointed, chairs were smashed over heads, and feelings were hurt. But we emerged, like Moses from the mountain, with the world's most authoritative ranking of the best gadgets of all time.

But let's lay some ground rules before we get started. What defines a "gadget" anyway?

* It has to have electronic and/or moving parts of some kind. Scissors count, but the knife does not.
* It has to be a self-contained apparatus that can be used on its own, not a subset of another device. The flashlight counts; the light bulb does not. The notebook counts, but the hard drive doesn't.
* It has to be smaller than the proverbial bread box. This is the most flexible of the categories, since gadgets have gotten inexorably smaller over time. But in general we included only items that were potentially mobile: The Dustbuster counts; the vacuum cleaner doesn't.

In the end, we tried to get to the heart of what really makes a gadget a gadget.

100. NSI BEDAZZLER, 1970s
Developed by Long Island-based NSI Innovations, the BeDazzler has been turning humdrum garments into glitzy gear for years. Whoever thought a souped-up stapler would become synonymous with anything adorned with rhinestones? So far, millions have been sold, so it looks as if it's here to stay.

99. SWINGLINE 747 STAPLER, 2002
Stapling technology dates back to the 1700s, when an unknown inventor created a stapler for King Louis XV of France, but staplers came to the everyman with the Swingline magazine stapler, invented in 1938. Of these, the most iconic is Milton's fire-engine red Swingline from the movie Office Space, first manufactured in 2002 due to demand from the film.

98. PEZ DISPENSER, 1927
Pez isn't the mystery ingredient that makes this candy so tasty; it's an abbreviation for the German for Pfeffermintz (peppermint). Today, Pez comes in lots more flavors, but who cares? We just like the little poppin' head dispensers.

97. MATTEL INTELLIVISION, 1980
Intellivision had better graphics than the Atari 2600, but not nearly as many games. Its keypad interface was just too sophisticated for its time, like the three-button mouse.

96. OLYMPUS ZUIKO PEARLCORDER, 1970
What device promised as much for the budding Bob Woodward as the pocket microcassette recorder? You could grab impromptu interviews, record off-the-cuff memos, capture brilliant thoughts on the fly, and have your friends tape class lectures you were too lazy to attend yourself. Sheer brilliance! It almost didn't matter that recordings sounded as if they'd been made at the bottom of a lake.

95. CARL ZEISS VICTORY 8 X 42 T*FL BINOCULARS, 2004
Most telescopes show images upside down and backward: Fine for stargazing, but really disorienting if you're trying to track a red-breasted nuthatch on the wing. Binoculars put the image right-side up using a pair of prisms inside each lens barrel, which also makes them more compact. And you don't have to squint to use them. Historians credit Italian Ignacio Porro with inventing this prism system in 1854; by 1894, commercial binoculars were available from Zeiss. The company's $1,550 Victory binoculars are still the lustworthy top of the line for birdwatchers, hunters, and urban Peeping Toms.

94. SCHICK ELECTRIC RAZOR, 1931
Jacob Schick believed that men could live to the age of 120 by shaving the right way, every day. To further than end, Schick invented the electric razor in 1928 and released the first commercial one three years later ... before dying in 1937 at the age of 49. Today, 30 percent of men use electric shavers.

93. COLUMBIA GRAPHOPHONE DICTAPHONE, 1907
Edison invented it, but Bell made it better. While the phonograph made audio recording possible, the Dictaphone brought voice recording to desktops everywhere.

92. POPEIL POCKET FISHERMAN, 1950s
This fishing rod (which is still manufactured today) folds up to a remarkable 9 inches long, thus freeing the world from the tyranny of poles. This was the first invention of the Popeil family; Ron Popeil would later go on to found the infamous Ronco company, which sold other innovations such as the Veg-O-Matic, the Smokeless Ashtray, and the Inside-the-Shell Egg Scramber (#84).

91. POLAR WIRELESS HEART RATE MONITOR, 1977
On a cross-country skiing trip, Professor Seppo Saeynaejaekanga met a ski trainer who knew about the professor's interest in measurement of human vital signs. The trainer suggested that a heart-rate monitor would be a huge improvement over taking his pulse manually; Saeynaejaekanga invented it, and training for high-level and serious recreational athletes entered the gadget age.

90. MAELZEL METRONOME, 1816
The scourge of piano students; the eternal hope of music teachers; the last, desperate attempt of suburban white boys to get some sense of rhythm before they grew up to become insurance brokers or restaurant managers: The metronome was all this, and more.

89. RUBIK'S CUBE, 1974
Invented in 1974 by Hungarian Erno Rubik, the Rubik's Cube hit America in 1980 like the avian flu, infecting millions and temporarily treating most ADHD symptoms before petering out in 1983.

88. BLACK & DECKER DUSTBUSTER, 1979
Corded handheld vacuums have been around since the 1920s, but it was the Dustbuster that broke us free from tethers.

87. RADIO SHACK TRS-80 MODEL 100, 1983
Not the first portable computer, nor the most advanced, the Model 100 distinguished itself through simplicity, ruggedness, and portability. For $800 you could outfit yourself with this 6-pound mobile typing machine (a real featherweight compared with the 20-pound Osborne and Kaypro portables). The specs weren't impressive: 8KB of RAM, an eight-line-by-40-character display, no hard drive, a 300-baud modem, and a 2.4MHz Intel CPU. But two AA batteries gave it enough juice to run for 16 hours, and it was tough enough to ward off falls, bumps, spills, and filthy language, making it a perfect choice for newspaper reporters and cops. Radio Shack sold 6 million between 1983 and 1991.

86. TAMAGOTCHI, 1996
Could the overwhelming success of this pocket-size virtual pet -- 40 million were sold worldwide -- make this the strangest cultural phenomenon ever?

85. HOHNER HARMONICA, 1857
Riding the rails gets awful boring -- and downright lonely -- unless you have a traveling buddy to help you pass the time. Hohner has been keeping hobos entertained for nearly 150 years with its 10-hole mouth harp, or, as we know it, the harmonica. It's guaranteed to liven up any junkyard barbecue.

84. RONCO INSIDE-THE-SHELL EGG SCRAMBLER, 1978
Sick of dirtying forks just to make scrambled eggs? Tired of having to clean out your scramblin' bowl? Get the Ronco Inside-the-Shell Egg Scrambler.

83. ACCUSPLIT MEMORY STOPWATCH, 1972
Before the digital stopwatch, when you timed something, you had to do it on a wacky round device that ticked and was just as hard to read as a wall clock. But in 1972, Accusplit introduced the digital stopwatch. Gone were hands and tick marks, replaced by easy-to-read numbers. Better yet, the thing expressed time in hundredths of seconds, a boon to athletes and scientists.

82. ALLIANCE GENIE GARAGE DOOR OPENER, 1954
This first-ever radio-controlled garage door spared millions the terror of having to manually haul up and down dangerous doors that can weigh up to an astonishing 400 pounds. (Although today, 20,000 people annually still manage to be injured by run-ins with garage doors.)

81. ZIPPO WINDPROOF LIGHTER, 1932
Deep in the Great Depression, America yearned for a way to light the cigarette butts discarded by the remaining fat cats, even in the harsh wind tearing through a block-long bread line. Fortunately, George Blaisedell was there, introducing the first Zippo windproof lighter in 1932. Since that time, the Zippo lighter has grown to superstar status, the favorite of firebugs and chain-smokers alike. The preponderance of cheap, disposable butane lighters can't touch the elegance and charm (and lighter tricks) that the Zippo affords. As a testament to its popularity, more than 400 million Zippos have been sold, and countless fan clubs have sprung up to celebrate this ingenious incendiary.

80. FISHER SPACE PEN, 1967
Spurred by the space race, the Fisher company spent years inventing a pen that could write upside down, underwater, and in zero gravity. What did the Russians equip their cosmonauts with? Pencils. Still, Fisher's Space Pen -- in the classic "Chrome Bullet" body developed in 1948 -- is the ultimate portable writing machine.

79. TASER X26, 2003
Though Jules Verne wrote about a gun that shot electric bullets in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the Taser's name comes from another book, written by Victor Appleton in 1911, called Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle. Our senior acronym cryptologist broke down the name as follows: Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle, or Taser. The original Taser-like device was patented in 1972, but the gadget didn't really take off until the 1990s. Today, the Taser X26 is the nonlethal weapon of choice. Because it doesn't kill the target (usually), cops are pretty much free to use it on any type of perp, from the drug-addled Hell's Angel to the frightened but disruptive 6-year-old. Just remember: Tasers don't tase people, people tase people.

78. KORG WT-10 ELECTRONIC TUNER, 1975
Nothing sounds worse than a band whose instruments are mistuned, unless it's Ashlee Simpson trying to demonstrate that she actually can sing. Fortunately, with an electronic tuner, even a deaf person can keep a guitar in tune: Just play a string and see if the needle lines up straight.

77. HASBRO LITE-BRITE, 1967
Who knew that all those happy hours spent punching multicolored pins into black paper were actually preparing us for a rewarding career designing web page bullets and desktop icons?

76. HP OMNIBOOK 300, 1993
Hewlett-Packard's OmniBook 300 weighed 3 pounds and packed a 386 processor and enough battery life to handle most domestic flights, but the real innovation was the "pop-out" mouse that you could pull from the right side of the machine, attached to a thin strip of plastic. The pop-out mouse died in 1999.

75. LASER POINTER, 1980s
By 1998, laser pointers were so popular that they were not only banned in schools, but laws were passed in many states to levy a $1,000 fine on anyone who pointed the red dot into someone's eye. Although professionals and teachers had used laser pointers for years, it wasn't until they dropped from $100 to less than $30 in the late '90s that kids were able to grab them and terrorize cats and moviegoers alike.

74. LUX MINUTE TIMER, 1936
For centuries, humans used hourglasses to time their souffles, midnight trysts, and bouts of fisticuffs. But it was only with the invention of the countertop timer -- available in a wide variety of whimsical designs -- that we reached the peak of civilization: The perfect poached egg.

73. TRAXXAS T-MAXX RC CAR, 1999
The remote-control car had seriously humble origins: Models were tethered by wire to a remote handset with two controls: Go forward, or go backward in a slight curve -- the only way to get out of a corner. Today's cars are highly modded machines, with freak cars pushing 100 mph and higher.

72. MASTER LOCK PADLOCK, 1924
In a dim, one-room workshop, locksmith Harry Soref and five employees manufactured the first Master Lock. Based on the banded steel that reinforced ship hulls and bank vaults, the Master Lock had a clear advantage over other locks of the day. More than 80 years later, the Master Lock has thousands of incarnations, from laser locks to the combination lock you use at the gym (if you go), and the Master name is a household word.

71. TYCO TOYS TICKLE ME ELMO, 1996
Press his tummy, he giggles. Press it again, he giggles a bit louder. Press it a third time, and Elmo goes into an epileptic conniption fit. Kids love it, but what separates Elmo from every other plush electronic toy? Rosie O'Donnell. After O'Donnell started throwing dozens of Elmos to her audience in 1996, the toy became that year's hot craze -- and one of the biggest ever -- driving black-market prices as high as $2,000.

70. ATARI PONG C-100, 1976
It played only one game, and that game sucked, but how much time did we burn in front of our little black and white TVs, spinning paddles and watching that tiny block bounce around? Ah, memories.

69. CUISINART FOOD PROCESSOR, 1973
Carl Sontheimer's most famous creation allowed harried cooks to slice, chop, and mix so easily that "Cuisinart" became the generic term for the food processor.

68. NOKIA 5100 SERIES CELL PHONE, 1998
It was nothing special under the hood, but snap-on covers in hundreds of colors and designs turned the boring phone into a fashion accessory.

67. LEATHERMAN PST, 1983
Put simply, Leatherman tools blow ordinary pocketknives out of the water. Pliers. A wire cutter. A file (and, in later models, whole saw blades). Plus the usual jackknife accoutrements: knife blade, screwdrivers, bottle opener, and awl. And, on top of it all, there's the appeal of wearing a compact toolkit in a leather holster on your belt. There aren't too many other objects with equal appeal to the pocket-protector crowd and the hard hats.

66. IRIDIUM SATELLITE PHONE, 1998
Score one for a good idea and brash determination: Iridium put 66 satellites in orbit around the globe and charged $3,000 (plus $1.99 a minute) for its 1-pound handset. The goal: Make and receive calls from anywhere on the planet. The reality: Iridium went bankrupt after little more than a year, though sat-phone vendors are still using them.

65. MATTEL FOOTBALL II, 1978
Mattel's first handheld football game was good; this sequel was a classic. Finally, you could throw passes to your little LED teammates, while enjoying the shrill electronic cry of "Charge!"

64. U.S. ARMY P-38 CAN OPENER, 1942
Who says the government can't make good products? This opener let millions of GIs crack their C rations, not to mention the dozens of other uses they found for it in the field, from cleaning their rifles to gutting fish.

63. MAGLITE FLASHLIGHT, 1979
It was originally marketed just to police officers and firefighters, but soon everyone had one of these nearly indestructible, adjustable-beam flashlights.

62. SONY WM-F5 SPORTS WALKMAN, 1983
Mobile electronics were fragile, delicate creatures until this rugged, water-resistant, yellow beast came along.

61. MOTOROLA BRAVO NUMERIC PAGER, 1986
17708173 96 15 50 6000! While the pager has been around since 1962, it wasn't until the Bravo that it hit the masses. The top-reading, numbers-only, belt-loop-clipping pager even spawned its own language. (If you need a translation of the above, let us know.) Pager code pushed this model to be the world's best-selling ever.

60. ABACUS, 190 A.D.
Nearly 1,800 years before the first electronic calculators, the Abacus let its user multiply, divide, add, subtract, and calculate square and cube roots ... in both decimal and hexadecimal.

59. SEXTANT, 1731
Yar, matey! Whar we be? Fetch me a sextant, get a fix on the North Star, and you'll know your latitude right quick. The sextant's mirrors and precision scales were the state of the art for accurate celestial navigation for more than two centuries. Avast, ye GPS-usin' gobs! Now how about some rum and a lime?

58. PANASONIC TOUGHBOOK 18, 2003
Tablet PCs are a great idea, but they're fragile -- not exactly for the rough-and-tumble, knockabout type. Panasonic changed that when it introduced its Toughbook 18 in 2003. This flat-bellied, steely eyed tablet is wind-, water-, and dust-resistant, and its design precludes the need for some sissy notebook bag.

57. MATTEL MAGIC 8-BALL, 1946
Is this really one of the most important gadgets ever? Signs point to yes.

56. POLAROID POLAVISION LAND VIDEO CAMERA, 1978
During the rise of color VHS, Polaroid introduced Polavision to the world as a budget competitor to the dying 8mm film camera. Polavision used three-minute, nonrewritable cartridges of film instead of reels. After you ran out of film, you popped the cartridge into a dedicated projector unit, which automatically developed the film for you. There was no sound, image quality was terrible, and playback on a 12-inch screen was unsatisfying. Polaroid quickly gave up on it, but this bold experiment in moving pictures that automatically develop was one that many of us still remember fondly.

55. SUPER SCISSORS, 1990s
The first record of scissors dates back to the 14th century B.C., but scissorlike implements were likely used even before that. In the past 34 centuries, scissors have evolved into myriad designs, from nose-hair trimmers to hedge clippers. The most advanced scissors we've encountered are undoubtedly Super Scissors, which can cut everything from fabric to chicken bones, and they can even cut a penny in half (but why you'd want to make a near-worthless coin even more worthless, we can't say).

54. THE CAR ALARM KEY FOB, 1990s
The guy who invented the car alarm? We have no idea. With any luck, he's roasting in hell. The one who invented a way of turning those alarms off wirelessly? No idea, either, but we nominate him for sainthood.

53. POWELL & LEALAND COMPOUND MICROSCOPE, 1861
Lensmaker Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) was the first person to see yeast cells, protozoa, and even bacteria, and his discoveries opened up a vast miniature world just waiting to be explored. But it wasn't until the 19th century that microscopy really went into high gear, as British manufacturers like Powell & Lealand developed high-quality microscope optics, which in turn led to huge advances in medicine, biology, geology, and more.

52. SONY CFS-5000 BOOM BOX, 1980s
Before the iPod made everyone more clandestine, real jive turkeys were trucking down streets with a boom box perched on their shoulders. The advent of removable speakers in the '80s meant that you could get wicked stereo sound for listening to Floyd in your basement or dorm room while totally stoned, but still be able to pack up the rig to take on the subway in the morning.

51. IROBOT ROOMBA, 2002
Forget the broom and vacuum -- no device in the history of mankind has been able to terrorize pets (and clean floors) as efficiently as the Roomba, the first household robot for many buyers. Artificial intelligence lets the device do all the tidying and terrorizing while you're away, so your shell-shocked cat sees you as savior rather than tormentor. The latest Roomba, the Discovery (pictured here), has a longer run time of 120 minutes, a faster charging time, and it returns to its charging station when it's almost out of juice.

50. ETCH-A-SKETCH, 1960
Though devoid of circuitry, we think it's safe to say that this was the world's first handheld with a fully graphical user interface.

49. CASIO CASSIOPEIA E-10, 1996
The first Windows CE gizmo was the original Casio Cassiopea A-10, a notebooklike clamshell unit that challenged Palms with a better interface, based on Windows 95. The Windows CE device soon morphed into a primitive, boxy PDA (the E-10, pictured here) that resembled the Palm but retained the superior interface -- it even included pocket versions of Word and Excel. Soon the new platform, dubbed Pocket PC, eclipsed the Palm in features and functions, including a color screen, stereo sound, a removable storage slot, and later, Wi-Fi. Now Palm's market share is dwindling and Pocket PCs are poised to take over. But in a cruel twist of fate, both branches of this evolutionary tree will likely be wiped out or consumed by the ever-smarter cell phone.

48. SONY DIGITAL MAVICA MVC-HD5, 1997
Until the Mavica, digital cameras were expensive affairs, with short battery life, tiny LCDs, expensive storage media, and no easy way to move photos onto your PC except through a painfully slow serial connection. The Mavica solved all these problems, with a $599 price, a huge 2.5-inch LCD, and by recording directly to floppy disks. Never mind that it was butt-ugly, in 1999 Mavicas accounted for more than half of the U.S. digicam market.

47. CANADIAN SIGNAL CORPS C-58 WALKIE TALKIE, 1943
Inventor Donald Hings first built a portable field radio in 1937, but it wasn't until World War II broke out that his invention became a commercial success -- and a critical component of battlefield communications. Tens of thousands of C-58 radio sets were made and used throughout Europe and Asia, paving the way for smaller, handheld radios in the postwar period. Walkie-talkies eventually became the indispensable sidearms of police officers, firefighters, and 7-year-old boys everywhere.

46. TEXAS INSTRUMENTS SPEAK & SPELL, 1978
This watershed device was the first toy to use voice synthesis on a single chip, setting the stage for toy makers everywhere who wanted to incorporate tinny robo-speak into their gizmos. The 128KB of read-only memory in the Speak & Spell was enough memory to keep kids edutained for hours. Aside from commanding the child to "speak it!" and "say it!" the device also made one-person hangman possible. Now that's progress.

45. SILVA COMPASS, 1933
What happened when a Swedish instrument maker named Gunnar Tillander hooked up with Sweden's most famous orienteer, Bjoern Kjellstroem? They invented the gold standard of compasses, which everyone from Boy Scouts to the military in dozens of countries still rely on.

44. FUZZBUSTER, 1968
Smokie never had it so bad. After getting what he thought was an unwarranted speeding ticket, Dale Smith of Dayton, Ohio, whipped up a box that detected the radar signals cops used to clock drivers. The Fuzzbuster was a sensation, especially after the federally mandated 55 mph speed limit went into effect in 1974, providing protection to lead foots everywhere.

43. HANDSPRING VISOR, 1999
Founded by Palm inventors Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky, Handspring did more than launch the category of wireless handhelds. It also started Palm on the road to licensing its operating system and eventually splitting the company into two.

42. H4 MARINE CHRONOMETER, 1761
Until the late 18th century, transatlantic navigators were sailing half-blind, able to determine their latitude from the stars but entirely unable to determine their exact longitude. John Harrison's chronometer was the first timepiece accurate enough to work aboard a ship, losing just 5.1 seconds over the course of a two-month sea voyage -- insanely accurate for the era. With the chronometer, sailors could compute their longitude based on what hour, in Greenwich Mean Time, the sun rose. That, in turn, facilitated the accurate mapping and colonization of the New World by adventurers such as Captain Cook (an early chronometer customer).

41. RIM INTERACTIVE PAGER, 1996
Technically not the first two-way pager (it was barely beaten to market by Motorola's TextWriter), the RIM Interactive Pager was the forerunner to the now-nearly-ubiquitous BlackBerry.


40. FALCON DUST-OFF, EARLY 1970s
By the mid-'80s, enough people had computers for long enough that dust, hair, and dander started collecting on the machines' insides, endangering the sensitive equipment. Lucky for them there was Dust-Off.

39. APPLE NEWTON MESSAGEPAD 120, 1994
Nobody's disputing that the Palm changed mobility forever. But two years before the Pilot 1000 blazed onto store shelves, Apple dropped its own handheld on the world. The Newton MessagePad 120 did everything the Palm Pilot did, except sell.

38. SANDISK COMPACTFLASH CARD, 1994
SanDisk kicked off the flash-memory revolution more than 10 years ago with the CompactFlash card. Today, nearly all portable electronics from cell phones to notebooks come with some type of removable storage slot, be it CF, MiniSD, SD, SmartMedia, xD, or the several flavors of Memory Stick.

37. JVC GR-C1 CAMCORDER, 1984
Until 1984, shooting your own home videos on VHS tape meant lugging around a unit the size of a small gorilla, and sometimes two! The first portable video systems came in two awkward pieces, with the tape deck slung over your shoulder like a purse. The JVC GR-C1 changed everything. It was decidedly miniature for the era (using "compact" VHS tapes), offered instant playback, and sported a shocking red case. Videophiles fell in love with it, as did director Robert Zemeckis: The GR-C1 played a central role in 1985's Back to the Future.

36. PULSAR QUARTZ DIGITAL WATCH, 1972
Shortly after the discovery of the stars for which it's named, the Pulsar digital watch took the guesswork out of timekeeping. Eschewing spring mechanisms, the Pulsar kept time through the precise vibrations of a quartz crystal buried in its innards. While its marketers may have been exaggerating when they called this a "time computer," we still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

35. SCREWPULL CORKSCREW, 1979
The first corkscrew appeared in the late 1700s, but it hadn't evolved much past the two-armed model in your parents' drawer until Herbert Allen, a toolmaker in the oil and aircraft industry, invented the Screwpull. His wife's struggle to open a bottle prompted Allen's invention of this baby and its Teflon-coated screw; there's no faster or easier way to crack open your cabernet.

34. GARMIN GPSCOM 170, 1997
For the directionally challenged, 1997 was a banner year, as the GPSCOM 170 brought satellite navigation to the palm of your hand. It was the first device ever to combine GPS telemetry and navigation software into a single pocket-size shell.

33. BOSE QUIETCOMFORT HEADPHONES, 2000
Bose started research on active noise reduction in 1978, but it wasn't available to consumers until 2000, when these phones turned air travel from an onslaught of white noise into a sanctuary of silence.

32. RADIOLAN BACKBONELINK AND PC CARDLINK, 1997
Even from day one of 802.11 (aka Wi-Fi), companies have been fighting to spruce up performance with proprietary tricks. RadioLAN was the dirtiest fighter of them all, abandoning the 2.4GHz band for the 5GHz band, which gave its products roughly double the performance of its competitors and opening the door for a flood of "turbo" and "super" wireless products. RadioLAN also spurred the first Wi-Fi price war: At $999 for an access point and $449 for a PC Card, RadioLAN's products were actually bargains for the era.

31. TREK THUMBDRIVE, 1999
The basic technology hasn't changed much since, but the Trek Thumbdrive set the standard for flash-memory storage that fits in your pocket.

30. JVC HR-3300 VHS VCR, 1976
Early videotape machines developed by Ampex in the 1950s and 1960s were roughly the size of washing machines. It wasn't until 1976 that home video took off, with JVC and Sony launching the infamous war between VHS and Betamax (not to mention a handful of other long-forgotten formats). VHS grabbed the early advantage thanks to a much lower price ($885 versus $1,300) and longer tapes, and because Sony was distracted by its now-crucial lawsuit, which legalized VCRs. Thanks, JVC, for both revolutionizing entertainment and for saddling us with this awful technology for 20 years.

29. JOSEPH ENTERPRISES THE CLAPPER, 1982
Switches became a thing of the past in 1982, when the first Clappers went on sale, letting you clap your TV, lights, or toaster oven on and off. However, the product jingle may have had a far larger impact on society than the product itself. See if you recognize the song: "Clap on. Clap off. Clap on, clap off -- the Clapper!" Now that's going to be stuck in your head all day.

28. KODAK BROWNIE CAMERA, 1900
Artists were experimenting with photography in the 19th century, but it wasn't until the $1 Brownie, with its easily replaceable 15-cent film cartridges, that ordinary people could be shutterbugs, too. "Easily operated by any school boy or girl," the ads bragged. A century of awkward family snapshots was launched.

27. NEC ULTRALITE, 1989
Not only is this considered the first ultralight, this NEC's moniker stuck for the entire category of sub-5-pound notebooks.

26. GRID COMPASS 1100, 1982
The first clamshell notebook, the Grid Compass also shares the distinction of being the first notebook in space, used by the Columbia astronauts in early shuttle flights. However, the Compass was heavy, lacked batteries, and cost up to $10,000. For these reasons, few nongovernment users bought it, and it died in relative obscurity.

25. NINTENDO GAME BOY, 1989
Bundling inventor Gunpei Yokoi's Game Boy with the highly addictive Tetris ensured Game Boy's success in the early '90s. Selling over 32 million consoles in its first three years, the Game Boy has had a slew of offspring, but none will ever compare to the original.

24. BIRO BALLPOINT PEN, 1938
Hungary's Biro brothers -- one a newspaper editor, one a chemist -- combined like the Wonder Twins to create the first functional ballpoint pen, relegating the fountain pen to collectors and eccentric shut-ins and enabling billions of cheapo giveaways.

23. TELEPHONE, 1876
Though electronic communication existed before the telephone (for example, the telegraph), it was transmitting voice by electricity that changed the world. From this sprang radio, and later television and the internet. But no other device is as much a necessity as the humble phone: No snooty artist will ever look down his nose at you in disdain and proclaim, "Oh, I don't own a phone." Without the phone, there would be no crank calls, phone sex, telemarketing aggravation at dinnertime, or drunken, embarrassing calls to your ex at 3 a.m. However, nor would there be emergency calls to 911, friendly chats, or those vital calls to Santa that keep children in line.

22. APPLE POWERBOOK 500, 1994
The PowerBook 500 wowed the notebook market with a long string of firsts: The first touch pad; the first stereo speakers (with 16-bit sound); the first expansion bay -- and the first PC Card slot; the first "intelligent" nickel metal hydride battery, with a processor that communicated battery status to the operating system; and, last but not least, the first curvaceous case, with gratuitously swooped edges and corners instead of the boxy angles of previous notebooks. Make no mistake, this notebook set the agenda for the following 10 years of portable computer design.

21. CARTIER SANTOS WRISTWATCH, 1904
Alberto Santos Dumont, a pioneer in early aviation history, complained to a friend that he couldn't read his pocket watch while flying his aircraft. In response, his good friend Louis Cartier built the first wristwatch and named it after Santos.

20. SWISS ARMY KNIFE, 1891
Karl Elsener's first knife, which was distributed to Swiss enlisted men, featured a blade, a screwdriver, a can opener, and a punch. Today, the company Elsener founded, Victorinox, and its competitor, Wenger, offer dozens of knives featuring up to 33 different tools. Meanwhile, the name has passed into cliche as an apt description of the knife's versatility.

19. IBM THINKPAD 701C, 1995
Never mind the specs, the crazy "butterfly" keyboard cemented IBM on top of the universe of notebook design. Closed, the machine looks like any notebook with a 10.4-inch screen from its era. Flip it open, and the keyboard expands to full size, making typing a breeze. This clever rig earned the 701C a place in the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art.

18. MOTOROLA DYNATAC 8000X, 1983
Ten years after Motorola researcher Martin Cooper placed the world's first cellular call, the rest of the world got its shot. The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X brought mobile calling to the masses (or about 300,000 very wealthy people) for just $3,995 plus outrageously high usage fees. Fortunately, the 8000X offered only one hour of talk time, so it was difficult to rack up stratospheric bills.

17. TOSHIBA SD-3000 DVD PLAYER, 1996
Toshiba was part of the consortium that invented the blessed DVD format, freeing us from the tyranny of analog forever. Its SD-3000 was the first consumer player on the market. As for the first DVD, four IMAX movies were released on March 19, 1997, including Africa: the Serengeti.

16. ACOUSTIC DATA COUPLER 300 MODEM, 1968
You kids today with your broadband connections. You make us sick. In our day, getting online meant loud, screechy modems like this 300-baud wooden monstrosity, which you hooked up to your old Bell handset to connect to other computers via telephone lines. But don't judge it by its looks alone; the ADC 300 made the dream of long-distance hacking a reality for the common geek.

15. HP-35 POCKET ELECTRONIC SCIENTIFIC CALCULATOR, 1972
It may not look like much, but the HP-35 scientific calculator was a tech trailblazer on two counts. Not only was it the first handheld scientific calculator, it was also the first device to use both integrated circuits and LEDs. Your Pocket PC would never have seen the light of day had it not been for this little number cruncher, which is still widely used today. If you're younger than 40, you can thank HP for the fact that you've never had to use a slide rule.

14. SONY CDP-101 CD PLAYER, 1983
Who can forget the crystalline, hiss-free blast of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" emanating from their first CD player? Let classical-music snobs debate the virtues of analog versus digital: CD players were practically made for the thumping bass and inescapable synthesizers of '80s pop music. Sony's CDP-101 was the first to hit the market, at $1,000, but cheaper models and the portable Discman followed the next year.

13. SONY TR-63 TRANSISTOR RADIO, 1957
Japanese entrepreneurs Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita and were among the first to grasp the true potential of transistor technology, which had been invented at Bell Labs in the late 1940s. Step one: Secure a license from Bell Labs. Step two: Start cranking out cheap transistor radios. The TR-63 was their first big success, turning their company, Sony, into a global audio powerhouse. And why not? Prior to the TR-63, radios were big vacuum-tube-laden affairs. Now you could carry one in a jacket pocket and listen to it all day. Fun fact: The red dots on the dial show where American Civilian Defense broadcasts could be found, in case of a nuclear attack.

12. APPLE IPOD, 2001
It wasn't the first hard-drive audio player, it was expensive, and it worked only with Macintosh computers. But the original iPod cracked the portable audio market wide open with its ease of use and to-die-for aesthetics. Some estimates peg Apple as now claiming an astounding 92 percent of the mobile audio market.

11. POLAROID LAND CAMERA, 1948
Edwin Land's first Polaroid camera introduced the United States to the delights of instant gratification. Of course, we had to put up with noxious chemical smells and bulky film cartridges, but that was a small price to pay for living on the cutting edge. Sadly, Land's company didn't stay on that edge; it milked its signature technology for decades while failing to come up with another big hit, and went into bankruptcy in 2001.

10. TIVO SERIES1, 1999
Like FedEx, Velcro, and Google, TiVo has joined that rare echelon of companies with names that have become synonymous with their industry. Today, we "tivo" instead of "tape," and 2 million TiVo enthusiasts have forgotten what TV commercials look like. Early TiVo units -- manufactured by Philips, Sony, and others -- were exorbitantly expensive (10 hours of recording cost $500), but competition with fellow upstart ReplayTV has steadily driven prices down. Now imagine what the world might be like had the product gone with its original name: "Teleworld."

9. ATARI 2600, 1977
We've got two words to describe the majesty of this device: Yar's Revenge.

8. DIAMOND MULTIMEDIA RIO 300, 1998
It seems like a lifetime ago, but it was just 1998 when Diamond Multimedia released the first portable flash MP3 player, prompting a lawsuit from the record industry claiming that any MP3 player facilitated piracy. It might have sported a paltry 32MB of memory, but the Rio 300 was the first shot in the digital music revolution.

7. U.S. ROBOTICS PILOT 1000, 1996
A string of companies tried to create handheld, pen-centric computers throughout the early 1990s, mostly to no avail. (Remember Zoomer? Neither does anyone else.) The Pilot 1000 was the first one to hit the sweet spot, and in so doing, it showed how successful simplicity and reliability could be. Despite successive name changes, many people still call their handhelds "Pilots" -- a testament to the power a single product had to create an entire industry.

6. CASIO QV-10 DIGITAL CAMERA, 1996
Milestones in the digital camera world are astonishingly difficult to nail down. In the early 1990s, major camera manufacturers began tinkering with digital for the professional market. The first amateur digicams were notoriously bad, and it wasn't until Casio's QV-10 that consumers really thought they could give this digital business a go. The QV-10 could store up to 96 images with a resolution of up to 76,800 pixels on its 2MB of flash RAM, and offered a wacky newfangled LCD screen so that you could preview your pictures, which you could output to either your 486 or TV. All this for just $995! Pricey, but the QV-10 looked cool, worked reasonably well, and didn't have to be sent back to Casio for servicing that often. Digicams would be plagued with bugs and high prices for years to come, but the QV-10 really opened the door for digital cameras as a whole.

5. CDI MECHANICAL MOUSE MODEL 4-101, 1970
Though the mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1965, it took a good five years for the idea to catch on. Computer Displays made the mouse marketable with its three-button Mechanical Mouse 4-101.

4. MOTOROLA STARTAC, 1996
Before the StarTAC, cell phones had become fashionable with teenagers and the belt-clip set, but it wasn't until this 3.1-ounce flip phone that people started to see the promise of a handset that could genuinely fit into your pocket. Far smaller than any phone that preceded it, the StarTAC was the ultimate status symbol of the late '90s and perhaps the best example of "geek chic" ever to exist. But most important, the StarTAC ushered in the wave of miniaturized phones, one that's still rolling today.

3. SONY WALKMAN, 1979
We're not saying the iPod isn't one of the coolest devices ever made, but Apple's little music monster would never have been possible without Sony's groundbreaking Walkman. The brainchild of Sony cofounders Masaru Ibuka, Akio Morita, and Norio Ohga, this portable cassette tape player made the dream of a mobile music collection a generation-changing reality and put Sony in the technological catbird seat.

2. ZENITH SPACE COMMAND TV REMOTE CONTROL, 1956
Remember having to get up off the couch to change the channel on the TV by hand? Of course you don't, thanks to Robert Adler's stunning breakthrough, the wireless remote control. Zenith had been meddling with remotes since 1950; its Lazy Bones remote (no, seriously, that's what it was called) simply ran to the TV with a wire. The first wireless remote came in 1955: The Flash-matic was basically a flashlight you shined at one of the TV's four corners, depending on whether you wanted to change the channel up or down. The problem: On sunny days, the TV would change channels by itself. In 1956, Adler had a better idea: Use ultrasonic sound to control the TV. His Space Command remote had four buttons that, when pressed, struck an aluminum rod located inside the unit. A receiver in the TV detected the sound, and depending on the pitch, changed channels or muted the volume. No batteries required. Various forms of ultrasonic technology were the standard all the way until the 1980s, when infrared took over.

1. APPLE POWERBOOK 100, 1991
Never mind the Apple versus PC debate: Until Apple unveiled this 5.1-pound machine, most "portable" computers were curiosities for technophiles with superior upper-body strength. But the PowerBook 100's greatest and most lasting innovation was to move the keyboard toward the screen, leaving natural wrist rests up front, as well as providing an obvious place for a trackball. It seems like the natural layout now, but that's because the entire industry aped Apple within months. The first PowerBooks captured an astounding 40 percent of the market, but more important, they turned notebook computers into mainstream products and ushered in the era of mobile computing that we're still living in today.

WHAT'D WE FORGET!?Our brains are only so big ... we're sure we forgot a handful of excellent gadgets. So tell us, what’d we leave off the list? We’ll publish the most popular reader submissions in an upcoming issue, and we’ll send the official Mobile PC Pez dispenser to the person who suggests forgotten gadget #1, along with a copy of this issue autographed by the entire staff! Send submissions (along with your full name and address) to null@mobilepcmag.com. Remember: Nominations have to meet the criteria outlined on this page! http://www.mobilepcmag.com/features/2005_03/top100gadgets-5.html

Each week the Magazine picks out snippets from the week's news - interesting newsbites that we learn along the way, and find their way into 10 Things We Didn't Know This Time Last Week every Saturday. So at the end of the year, here is an almanac of those things we learned.

1. Street brawlers sometimes arm themselves with potato peelers, according to the Home Office, which wants to make them banned weapons.
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2. Farmers plant their crops up to three weeks earlier than 15 years ago. In the 1960s, temperatures from January to March averaged 4.2C; it rose to 5.6C in the 1990s.

3. Brussels sprouts have three times as much vitamin C as oranges.


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4. Crows apparently like the taste of windscreen-wiper blades.
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5. 52% of households have five or more remote controls.
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6. Dame Judi Dench sends 450 Christmas presents, according to her daughter.

7. The heat generated by a laptop, and the knees-together pose needed to balance it, can damage a man's fertility.
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8. Brazilians are the nationality most likely to read spam.
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9. Some pigeons follow roads and turn off at motorway junctions to navigate their way round.

10. Ten people die on the UK's roads every day.
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11. The opening lines of the Communist Manifesto - "A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism" - were initially translated as "A frightful hobgoblin stalks through Europe".
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12. Ronald Reagan started planning his own funeral the year he entered the White House almost quarter of a century ago. He died in June.

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13. Smoking killed nearly one million people worldwide in 2000, according to the World Health Organisation.

14. Marine biologists say altruistic behaviour is not uncommon in dolphins.
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15. UK scientists have developed a clock which ticks 1,000,000 billion times a second. Technically that's a quadrillion.
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16. Prince Charles and Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, were born on the same day.

17. Ian Hislop, scourge of the media powerful, now knows that his grandfather's middle name was Murdoch.
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18. There are 75 withdrawals from cash machines every second in the UK.
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19. The collective noun for rhinos is "crash".
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20. Osama Bin Laden refers to 9/11 as "Manhattan".
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21. The word "electricity" was first used in English in about 1600 by Elizabeth I's physician.
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22. George W Bush got the highest number of votes for president of any candidate in US history, in November 2004.
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23. John Kerry got the second highest number.

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24. Germany has an 18-year-old MP - Julia Bonk, a member of the Saxony legislature. Her name is not funny in German.

25. Half of Britons have a collection of more than 20 carrier bags at home, according to a survey. One in 10 people has up to 80.
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26. The full names of Scooby Doo's Mystery Inc members are: Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, Scooby "Scoobert" Doo. Shaggy is actually Norville Rogers.
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27. So much for the overworked society, the average British employee actually works 75 minutes less a week than in 1997, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research.

28. The word "celeb" is not a recent invention - it was used in a letter to Woodrow Wilson in 1913. The word "sex", used to mean sexual intercourse, was first used in 1929.
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29. The remains of thousands of mammoths have been found by fishermen in the North Sea.
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30. The Sydney Harbour Bridge contains just 16 nuts and bolts. The rest is held together by rivets, because it doesn't need to be dismantled.

31. Herrings break wind to communicate and keep the school together.

32. Tory leader Michael Howard and wife Sandra watch a video of Brideshead Revisited every New Year.

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33. Bob Dylan originally planned to use his first two given names, Robert Allen, as his stage name, because it sounded like the name of a Scottish king. After he saw some Dylan Thomas poems, he chose Dylan as his new surname instead.
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34. Plastic surgery dates back to 600BC and the first nose job was in 1000AD.
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35. George Bush and John Kerry shared the same debating coach while at Yale University. His name was Rollin Osterweis.

36. One in five British homes has a foot spa, although mostly they lie idle, among more than £3bn of "useless gadgets" to be found in UK homes, according to insurance firm Esure.

37. Although it's nearly 24 years since Jimmy Carter was US president, he still receives about 4,000 letters a month.

38. Yoda was based on Albert Einstein.

39. More Brits die each year falling from their hotel balcony than do in diving accidents, according to Foreign Office statistics.

40. There is a British Hat Council - it's the body which coined the phrase: "If you want to get ahead, get a hat." It reports that sales of hats to men have risen by 80% in the past year, and that £51m will be spent on headgear this year.

41. Twenty years ago, seven out of every 10 pints drunk in the UK were ale. Now, thanks to the rise of lager, stout and cider, the number is just three.

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42. Running a car costs the average motorist £101 a week, according to the RAC.

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43. In 1911, Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects arrested for the theft of the Mona Lisa.

44. Until 3 September 2004, the fastest bus in London was an old fashioned red double decker, registration number ALD 971B. Unlike other buses, according to reports, this one did not have a speed regulator and so could go above 30mph.

45. There is a world record for being able to squirt liquids out of a human eye. The existing record is 8.7 feet (2.65m), but a Turkish man claims to have broken the record with a 9.2 feet (2.8m) squirt.

46. Interesting historical footnote: Greg Dyke was on the Atkins diet at the time of the Hutton Report, he revealed in his autobiography.
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47. A "jiffy" is 10 milliseconds in computer science terms.
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48. Margaret Roberts (later Thatcher) helped invent the chemical process that produces Mr Whippy ice cream.

49. Guests at the Queen's coronation in 1953 pilfered toilet paper from Westminster Abbey. "It was found early on Coronation Day, that much of the lavatory paper had been removed, and in future it will be necessary to take steps to prevent this," official records released this year reveal.

50. A tribe living in a remote part of Brazil's Amazon rainforest has no words for numbers beyond two. The Piraha use "one" to mean one or roughly one, two means two, while any larger number is just "many".

51. The day after the atomic bomb exploded on Hiroshima, the banks re-opened. They had one customer, John Reader's book Cities recorded.

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52. Up to 65% of children with a father in jail get imprisoned themselves, according to Home Office figures.
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53. Phrase-turner extraordinaire Clive James says he originated the terms "underwhelmed" and "young fogey", but is yet to receive the recognition he deserves. He also says he's particularly proud of his description of the Conan the Barbarian-era Arnold Schwarzenegger as "a brown condom full of walnuts".

54. George Clooney listens to The Archers online, according to model Lisa Snowden who says she introduced him to it.

55. Having breaking news alerts delivered to your mobile phone may seem cutting edge, but the Daily Express pioneered the service back in 1914, offering personal war updates via telegram for a shilling each.

56. The Shining is the "perfect scary movie", according to researchers, who have come up with a scientific formula for such things. They identified the isolated setting, escalating music and chase scenes as some of the key elements in its success.
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57. Gibraltar, which celebrated 300 years under British rule this year, was named Jebel Tarik - Tarik's mountain - by Moorish settlers in honour of their leader Tarik ibn Zeyad. The last syllable was lost over time.
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58. Saddam Hussein's son Uday kept nine lions as the centrepiece of a bizarre menagerie of exotic animals. In July the lions were moved to Baghdad zoo.
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59. Britons throw away enough rubbish every hour to fill the Royal Albert Hall.

60. The bookmakers William Hill loses 80,000 little pens a day - the sort used to fill out betting slips.

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61. Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, has got solar panels fitted on the roof of his Cricklewood home.

62. The founder of the Natural History Museum, Sir Richard Owen, was the man we have to thank for the word "dinosaur", literally meaning "terrible lizard".

63. Just one in a hundred workers goes to the pub for their lunch, according to a study. The same proportion spend lunch having sex.
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64. Chef Gordon Ramsay says he gets between three and five parking tickets on any working day.

65. "Square eyes" might be real - Australian researchers have found that children who spend a long time inside watching television or on computers become more susceptible to short-sightedness.
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66. An American girl aged between three and 11 has, on average, 10 Barbie dolls in her toy box.
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67. It's 30 years since the world's first barcode was used. It was on a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit at a supermarket in Ohio. The gum is now an exhibit in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC.

68. Bill Clinton revealed in his autobiography that he didn't learn to ride a bike properly until he was 22.

69. The theme music to Crimewatch UK, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in June, is called Rescue Helicopter - written by John Cameron.

70. And reports of UFOs have dwindled since the late 1990s. In the UK, sightings have gone from about 30 a week to almost zero; it's a trend echoed in the US and Norway.

71. Departing chancellors of the exchequer get to choose a cartoon caricature of themselves to hang on the staircase of 11 Downing Street. Not that the current occupant, Gordon Brown, is going anywhere just yet - this year he became Britain's longest-serving chancellor.

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72. Desert locusts can travel 120 miles in 24 hours.
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73. Ducks have regional accents. London ducks shout out a rough quack to be heard above the urban din; those in the West Country make a quieter, softer sound.
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74. Lasagne has replaced chicken tikka massala as the favourite dish of Britons. Sainsbury's sold 13.9 million lasagne ready meals and just 7.4 million chicken tikka massalas last year. Tesco sold 9.8 million lasagnes and 6.3 million chicken tikka massalas.

75. Freak conditions above Everest can cause the sky to "fall in". An analysis of weather patterns in May 1996, by University of Toronto researchers, said eight people died when the stratosphere sank to the level of the summit.

76. More than one billion birds crash into buildings in the US every year. Mirrored office blocks are a particular hazard.

77. There are at least 17 Maxine Carrs in the UK, all of whom are ex-directory.

78. Defeated Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry says he once flew upside-down over Israel. It was, he says, the "perfect way" to see the Middle East.

79. Space is only 62 miles away. That's 100 kilometres.
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80. Essex is the UK's book club capital, with more reading groups than any other county and spin-off events such as a walk-and-talk-about-books club.

81 . When people are in love, weird things happen. Men get more female hormones, and women get more male. Scientist Donatella Marazziti says it's as if nature wants to eliminate what can be different in men and women, perhaps to help the mating process.

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82. Alan Smithee is a prolific director of film stinkers. His is the name directors use if a film is recut by the studio against their wishes. The alias was first used on the 1969 western, Death of a Gunfighter. Its origins are somewhat murky, but one theory goes that it is an anagram of "The Alias Men."

83. There's no mobile reception at the top of the Gherkin in London - it's too high up at 40 storeys. The phone companies hadn't expected a tower so tall, and it's above the reception area.

84. There are 1,049 offshore British islands. One of the late Norris McWhirter's great loves was visiting them all.

85. Poets die young... "On average, poets lived 62 years, playwrights 63 years, novelists 66 years and non-fiction writers lived 68 years," according to California State University's James Kaufman.

86. You can see the back of your own head in some parts of the universe as time and light are so curved. The universe is neither flat, nor football shaped - it looks like a flat-sided trumpet, German physicists believe.

87. One gigabyte of information - about a quarter of the memory of an iPod mini - is the equivalent of a pick-up truck load of paper.
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88. In the past decade, four people in the UK have died in cemetery accidents, crushed by falling tombstones.

89. Continuing in this cheery vein, more than 1.2 million people die in traffic accidents worldwide each year. The first was Bridget Driscoll, knocked down by a car travelling at 12mph in London on 17 August 1896. The coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death, and warned: "This must never happen again."
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90. A quarter of Australia's population was born outside the land Down Under.

91. Scientists have developed cress which changes from green to red when it comes near explosives - ideal for spotting landmines...
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92. ...which is a good job as there are still about 100m undiscovered landmines in the world, just waiting to go off.

93. One in 12 of the country's workforce is a cleaner, according to the British Cleaning Council.
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94. A cruise ship can put more than 130,000 litres of sewage into the sea each day.

95. There are a third more children at grammar schools now, under Labour, than there were 10 years ago under the Tories (150,750 now compared with 111,846 in 2003.)
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96. One in four 16- and 17-year-old girls in the UK is on the contraceptive pill - more than ever before.
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97. Matt Groening's father - the inspiration for Homer Simpson - has only complained once about his alter-ego's actions. It was an episode in which Homer badgered Marge into walking some considerable distance on a hot day to fetch him something.

98. Lord Baden Powell wanted a section on the dangers of "self abuse" in his Scouting for Boys. His original manuscript read: "A very large number of the lunatics in our asylums have made themselves ill by indulging in this vice although at one time they were sensible cheery boys like you."

99. Dom Perignon, the Benedictine monk, was originally employed by his abbey to get the bubbles out of the champagne, according to Gerard Liger-Belair's new book, Uncorked: the Science of Champagne.

100. Bill Clinton sent just two e-mails while he was president.

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美國馬里蘭州華裔法醫亞伯特‧朱23日提醒家長，嬰兒搖籃左右搖擺的規律動作可能引發家犬的攻擊本性，以致狗對搖籃裡的小寶寶展開致命攻擊。

亞伯特‧朱在美國法醫學會會議上說，過去四年馬里蘭州就發生兩起此類事件，他指出，狗會追逐網球或汽車等移動的物件，同樣的也會追逐搖動的搖籃，這是狗狗無法自制的反應。

2003年巴爾的摩市有一名兩周大的小男嬰被家裡的鬥牛犬從搖籃中拖出來咬死，1999年艾基米爾市有一名3個月大的男嬰也死在犬爪之下。

據美聯社搜查網路檔案發現，2000年佛羅里達州坦帕市也有一起家犬殺嬰事件，過去兩年美國其他地方至少有兩名嬰兒被犬咬傷，其中一起，狗狗甚至在女主人面前就猛衝上前去攻擊嬰兒。

印第安納州的威廉森太太在接受訪問時表示，他們養了八年的狗從來不會對小孩擺出凶樣子，卻無緣無故的攻擊搖籃裡的九周大小寶寶，咬得寶寶血流滿面，斷裂的鎖骨刺穿肩膀。

但有的醫生認為，活動的東西雖然會引起狗狗的攻擊性，但家犬也有攻擊睡在嬰兒床裡小寶寶的紀錄，所以不見得是搖籃惹禍。

訓犬專家和動物行為學家建議，在把新生兒帶回家之前，應該先訓練家犬習慣搖籃，最好能把一個會發出哭聲的洋娃娃放在搖籃，直到狗狗對搖籃不起反應為止。不論如何，絕對不要讓小嬰兒單獨和狗狗在一起。

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擔任奧斯卡頒獎典禮的頒獎人是最好康的工作，和奧斯卡得主一樣，可以領到價值10萬美元（約台幣312萬元）的禮袋，美國影藝學院對禮袋內容一向保密，不過今年比較特殊的禮物包括一年份的軟糖豆，可以嘗盡50種口味。如果糖吃多影響身材，也不必擔心，還可以到紐約享受價值台幣10萬元的頂級spa。

有環保意識的明星還有其他好處，如果願意放棄耗油的加長禮車，乘坐環保汽車出場，環保組織將獻上環保禮，裡面包括價值2500美元到3500美元的鑽石墜子或別針，今年羅賓威廉斯和提姆羅賓斯都可以拿到。

此外，奧斯卡頒獎典禮是全球最盛大的服裝秀，設計師為了爭取明星在星光大道穿他們的作品，不但願意免費提供的服裝，還把鈔票往明星口袋裡塞，讓明星有穿又有得拿。

1995年鄔瑪舒曼穿Prada亮相、1999年葛妮絲派特洛的粉紅Ralph Lauren穿出公主氣質，品味令人稱道，但如今許多明星向錢看，為了錢寧可犧牲選擇服裝的自由。

尤其許多明星都有廣告合約，個人喜好也得擺一邊，像妮可基嫚是香奈兒香水模特兒、莎莉塞隆是CD香水模特兒、希拉蕊史旺是凱文克萊內衣模特兒，希拉蕊史旺在金球獎穿的衣服是什麼牌子不必猜也知道。

打開Google的首頁，再點按兩次滑鼠，便進入「Google實驗室」(Google Labs)。這裡收錄約十種發展中的技術，Google希望使用者有所反應，提出他們寶貴的意見和實用的點子，這樣的做法，等於拿全世界當實驗室...
編按：本文摘自《Google：Google成功的七堂課》一書；請見-->「自投羅網」網站。

打開Google的首頁，再點按兩次滑鼠，便進入「Google實驗室」（Google Labs）。這裡收錄約十種發展中的技術，其中有許多可能永遠不會化為實際的產品推出。它們放在那裡，是因為Google希望使用者有所反應，提出他們寶貴的意見和實用的點子。實際使用產品的人知道很多事情，能夠及早告訴Google，什麼構想不錯，將來有可能成功。

Google的做法，等於拿全世界當實驗室。任何人都可以試用它研發中的產品。這座實驗室，反映了它和使用者共有一種特質──公開實驗，容忍失敗。使用者曉得，Google推出的每一樣東西，並非都毫無瑕疵可言。他們也知道，自己是參與改善過程的一員，所以儘管向Google表示，什麼東西做得非常不錯，什麼東西做得很不好，以及可以如何改良。

Google鼓勵所有的員工，從總工作時數分配20%，也就是一個星期大約騰出一天的時間，獨立研究自己喜歡、感興趣的高科技計畫。訂定這項政策，是為了鼓勵工程師運用和發揮創意。如果研究成果有意思，Google會在線上測試它們，觀察有什麼樣的發展。

靠這種拼拼湊湊的運作方式，Google竟然在軟硬體的競賽中大幅領先敵手。它的成功模式已經拍板定案：組織完善的競爭對手只寄望從十拿九穩的業務擠出營業收入，Google那些通脫不拘的工程師，則願意闖出一條新的路子。

Google以它被視為網際網路上最好的搜尋技術，而建立起優異的聲譽和使用者基礎。它使用的策略，說穿了，卻是四處撒播種籽，看看會長出什麼東西來。它不斷把許多新產品、服務和技術往牆上丟，觀察哪些黏得牢。

免費電子郵件Gmail、不必開啟瀏覽器也能上網直接搜尋的Google Deskbar、購物搜尋引擎Froogle、搜尋書內世界的服務Google Print、已經從Google實驗室「畢業」的個人化新聞搜尋服務Google News，以及其他的個人化工具，都是從個人研究計畫政策孕育而生的。它們像斥候一樣，先被派出去感受使用者反應的冷熱。

舉例來說，Google News是起於工程師巴拉特（Krishna Bharat）2002年的個人研究計畫。雖然新聞搜尋仍處於「測試」（beta）階段，卻已吸引到廣大的網路閱聽人，深受愛用，並在Google的首頁以顯著的位置推廣。

Google News將每天的新聞綜合分成幾類，並有個人化的新聞快訊提報服務（Google Alert），使用者只要打進所關心新聞的關鍵字，遇有相關的新聞，Google就會發出電子報通知使用者。它吸引到的點擊率，已經不亞於主流新聞網站。

紐約大學的助理教授裴南柏格（Adam L. Penenberg）指出，Google推出新聞網站時，曾令雅虎新聞（Yahoo News）、MSNBC、CNN手心冒汗。這些競爭同業的新聞網站，每年不得不花數百萬美元，取得最新的新聞內容授權和支付記者、編輯薪水。Google 卻找到一種既便宜又快速的新聞搜尋方法。

Google News借重電腦演算法，新聞蒐集的過程完全自動化。它的高速電腦過濾篩選約七千個資訊來源（其中四千五百個是英文網站），決定哪些是相關性最高的文章。接著，它取標題和第一段部分文字張貼在新聞網頁上，並以標題做為外部連結。

使用者點按連結或照片縮圖時，他們被直接帶到新聞出版者的網頁。這和站在書報攤瀏覽報紙標題、引言段落、照片，然後選擇你想看的文章沒有兩樣。

Google News的頁面乾淨，沒有雜七雜八的廣告，再加上主力搜尋引擎已有的流量，很快就吸引到一群忠誠的讀者，因此躋身十大新聞網站之列，一個月有約六百萬非重複訪客上站。

Google相關文章大搜尋

我的網站在Google的PageRank「高達」5分，這在繁體個人網站中算是相當前面了，所以很多人常問我PageRank是什麼，又為什麼查很多關鍵字都會進入我的網站，下面是關於PageRank的簡單介紹，希望大家的PageRank都能提高一點，跟其他簡體網站競爭的時候，Google排名也好看一點。

　我脫離「網頁界」已經很久了，起碼從2001年開始，就沒有因為（製作、設計、規畫）網站而獲得任何直接的收入。不過在此之間，我對網路、網站的觀察、研究從未間斷，除了協助朋友架設網站外，也一直經營著現在這個 Richyli.com 。

　Richyli.com 看起來有點樸素、簡單，最近Blog興起之後，這種實用主義的簡約風格又大抬頭，但我的風格已經這樣很久了。在一堆樸素的網站之中，如果你有安裝Google的Toolbar的話，可以發現一件不那麼樸素、簡單的事情：我的PageRank高達5/10分。可能很多人沒有特別的感覺，「不也就是5分嗎？」但我如果跟你說中時電子報每年養了那麼多員工、花了那麼多錢，卻經常只有5分時，你就知道5分代表什麼意義了。

Google Pagerank 5/10
先來說說什麼是PageRank好了。

　在此之前要先確認一個前提：Google是全世界最重要的網路搜尋網站。如果你能夠認同這個觀點，下面的說法跟努力才有意義。如果Google是最重要的搜尋網站，那麼在Google名列前茅，也相當重要。否則網友輸入了某個關鍵字，然後Google說這個關鍵字大約有3,113,500 項搜尋結果，你的網站如果沒有被排在前50名，基本上都很難被使用者看到。

　很多人都會想：「平平我的網站也有這個關鍵字」，為什麼別的網站會出現在我的前面？Google利用了二種工具，來確保左側的關鍵字搜尋結果排名不會被惡意控制（但其實還是可以）。首先是跟早期搜尋引擎一樣的頁面分析，例如在這個頁面中，標題（Title）有沒有哪些關鍵字，頁面中這個關鍵字出現多少次、關鍵字出現在什麼位置。這個東西不是Google的專利， AltaVista就是這樣幹，不過還沒有開始大量獲利，就被Google幹掉了，因為這種方式非常容易被操弄，一個國小學生如果製作了一個總統府網站，而且他也很乖地將標題寫成「總統府」，內頁出現了大量的「總統府」字眼，說不定查詢「總統府」，國小學生的總統府網站可能會出現在總統府官方網站之前。我知道你不喜歡這樣，我也不喜歡。

　Google第二個工具就是後來能夠獨霸一方的秘密PageRank。有了PageRank，Google就知道某個網站是不是確實「很重要」。Google的PageRank一共有10分，11個等級（包含0分）。這個PageRank理論上是浮動的，每個月可能都會變動。

　Google 的PageRank公式十分複雜，而且也不是一成不變。但簡單地來說，就是衡量某個網站是否被其他網站（或背後的網站經營者、管理者）所肯定。你如果有網站，通常不會隨便去連結別人的網站，當你連結出去之後，就等於投對方網站一票。Google基本上看幾樣東西：

1. 連結進來的數量。愈多，當然愈好。
2. 外部連結網站自己的PageRank。愈高愈好。
3. 外部連結網站連結出去的數量。越低越好。

　當關鍵字分析的結果相同的時候，Pagerank越高，Google排名就會越前面。但根據我的經驗，Pagerank對於排名的重要性還是比頁面分析高，一個Pagerank 2分的網站，管他內容多麼相關，可能都比不上一個Pagerank 10分但內容低度相關的網頁。
如何提高PageRank

　想要提高PageRank，讓自己的網頁容易被搜索到，其實並不困難。最重要的關鍵就是讓別人的網站連結你的網站，而且對方的PageRank越高越好，但連出來的連結越少越好，下面是幾種可行的方案：

1. 瘋狂登錄：將你的資料提供給所有搜尋引擎，這樣最起碼PageRank可以向上提升1到2分。
2. 與朋友互相連結：團結就是力量，你有網站、我也有，只要兩個人的網站互連，就會彼此受惠，PageRank都會提高「一點點」，何樂而不為，而且互相拉抬之後，如果朋友的網站PageRank因此提高，從他那邊分過來的分數也會提高，但也切勿漫無目的隨意內容相差太多的網站，否則可能被當成惡搞。
3. 提升網站品質：只要你的網站資料豐富、有趣，不用要求也會有人主動連結，這是經營網站的本質，也是確保PageRank的重要手段。我常常上網查到底有誰連結過Richyli.com，每次都覺得很好玩，也很感謝這些站長的連結。

　當然別忘了，Google除了PageRank之外也使用了頁面分析技術，如果你想要被搜尋到，最好盡量將「關鍵字」放在頁面的Title中，然後在頁面中再度提到這些關鍵字，才能確保自己想要被搜尋到的東西真的可以脫穎而出，獲得較好的Google排名，讓網頁在Google的第一頁出現。

　除了Google之外，目前許多後起的搜尋引擎其實多少也仿效了PageRank的技術，只不過PageRank已經註冊商標了，所以其他搜尋引擎不敢大聲嚷嚷。無論如何，只要你網站的內容豐富、在大型搜尋引擎登錄，不論搜尋技術如何改，名次都不至於太差。如果你真的沒有能力把Google左邊的排名做上去，Google同情你，允許你花錢買右邊的AdWord！

2005/02/22自由時報　年後開工已經一個禮拜，你還是瘦不了嗎？胖瘦自如的好萊塢明星到底怎麼控制身材，快來參考吧！

區域減重法
★追隨者 瑪丹娜、莎拉潔西卡派克、珊卓布拉克、辛蒂克勞馥、芮妮齊薇格

　珊卓布拉克曾透露，靠這個方法，讓她成功甩掉六公斤肥肉。「BJ單身日記」裡的女主角芮妮齊薇格忽胖忽瘦的身材，簡直跟變魔術一樣伸縮自如，靠的是運動與飲食的相互配合，飲食部分就是奉行區域減重法，搭配專屬教練史蒂文為她設計的每日至少80分鐘的瑜珈技巧。

★理論根據
　生化學家巴里‧席爾斯（Barry Sears）博士發現，藉由高蛋白質、低碳水化合物的飲食法，可以讓身體荷爾蒙平衡，讓人進入輕鬆、愉快的狀態，這樣的狀態稱為區域（the zone）。

　當人自然而然地進入這個區域，就無須挨餓減肥，根據席爾斯說法，碳水化合物容易使血糖升高、血糖又容易導致高胰島素和肥胖，所以，減肥就得從這系列連鎖反應著手，包括胰島素、血糖、脂肪等都被他稱為「超級荷爾蒙」，一旦順利阻斷這些超級荷爾蒙，人就能瘦下來呢！

★正確吃法
　重點：選擇不讓胰島素迅速升高的食物，澱粉類控制於總熱量的40%以下，蛋白質與脂肪類各約占30%。

　近期科學園區的大老闆及成功企業人士，紛紛興起了吃「地瓜餐」排毒，在飲食上也奉行「戒三白（白飯、白肉、白麵）」，這類飲食法就與區域減肥法有點類似。

　媚登峰總營養師方晴誼說，區域減重法有點類似日本流行的低胰島素（低GI）減重法，在選擇食物種類時，選擇不讓胰島素迅速竄升的食物，繼而讓血糖維持在穩定的狀態，一旦血糖穩定了，你就不會有大吃大喝的意念了！

　什麼是不讓胰島素迅速升高的食物呢？方晴誼說，以越接近食物原始樣貌為優先，還有能維持飽足感越久的越好。例如：地瓜雖然為澱粉類，卻是好的澱粉類，因為擁有高纖維，能刺激、幫助腸胃蠕動，企業界所戒食的三白，比如說白米、白糖都是經過加工精緻過的食物，儘管能滿足口腹之慾，卻不能讓你更瘦更健康。還有，適度的油脂，也可以幫助飽足感提升，降低對食物的渴求。

　另外，麵包、米飯、義大利麵、胡蘿蔔、玉米、豌豆、馬鈴薯、香蕉、葡萄乾、木瓜、果汁、冰淇淋、蜂蜜和糖等等，則都是讓胰島素迅速升高、不鼓勵攝取的食物。雞肉、魚肉、燕麥、蔬果則是多食無礙。

★營養師說：
　肝、腎方面疾病患者，最好不要嘗試這種減肥法，因為高蛋白質容易增加腎臟負擔。不過，蛋白質也有好壞之分，通常蛋白質的品質不好，就得靠大量的重口味調味料掩蓋腥羶，所以，能吃出食材美味的肉品才是好的蛋白質，方晴誼說，飲食是基本的，透過正確的選擇飲食內容，一輩子都能受益無窮呢！

阿金減重法

★追隨者 布萊德彼特與分居老婆珍妮佛安妮斯頓這對銀色夫妻、凱薩琳麗塔瓊斯、琥碧戈珀、嗆辣妹潔芮、碧昂絲

　凱薩琳麗塔瓊斯利用這種方法，產後迅速恢復魔鬼身材。碧昂絲一直持續以低澱粉飲食體重管理法，並且每天慢跑數公里保持身材。

★理論根據
　 對於無法克服食慾的明星們來說，心臟病學家羅伯特阿金在暢銷書《阿金博士的減肥大革命》中提倡的減肥法可說是一大福音。在美國，阿金被稱為低醣飲食之父，阿金博士認為，吃下了碳水化合物後，血糖上升，胰島素跟著上升。

　依照阿金的說法，身體過胖的人，體內一直製造著過多的胰島素，所以，只要能禁絕碳水化合物，身體就能處於酮態（ketosis），不僅食慾跟著消失，脂肪也會被大量分解。

★正確吃法
　重點：可以吃大魚大肉等高蛋白及脂肪類，不過，碳水化合物絕對忌口。

　儘管醫界、營養師對於這樣的減重法，大力批判，但事實證明，每天將澱粉控制於25g左右連續兩個星期，減重效果幾乎是非常明顯的。

★營養師說：
　不吃麵、飯及麵包類等等飲食規則，或是晚餐不進食澱粉類食物的非常手段，幾乎都是高蛋白減重法，這種只吃蛋白質不吃澱粉的減重方法，短時間的確可以快速燃燒身體脂肪，而且不用忍受飢腸轆轆的感覺，還能使人立即感受到體重的變化。

　不過，方晴誼強調，均衡營養是必須的，沒有醣類做燃燒的情況下，容易導致酮酸中毒，對腎臟造成極大負擔，以東方人來說，滷肉飯、牛肉麵等主食，幾乎都以澱粉類為主食結構，想靠這個方法瘦一輩子，簡直是難上加難！所以，想執行這個非常手段，最好每次執行三天，千萬不要持續長久都不吃澱粉類。

運動+高蛋白飲食+減肥藥
★追隨者
小甜甜布蘭妮

　小甜甜一旦變成肥甜甜那可就大事不妙了，不過，年紀不過二十出頭的她，也是嘴饞一族，每天至少得進食五次，她曾說過：「我想吃什麼的時候就盡情吃，但從不過量。」菜肴中必須含有豐富蛋白質則是她的堅持，餐桌上最常見的食物包括沙拉、雞肉、湯和水果，教練鍛鍊加上不間斷的練舞，也造就了她鏡頭前的完美體態。

　不過，除了充分運動量及飲食，她還有秘密武器，就是在英國希斯羅國際機場的免稅店狂買一種叫做「Zantrex-3」的減肥藥，據說，對燃燒卡路里相當有用呢！消息一出，這種減肥藥立刻被肥胖者視為仙丹妙藥，還造成美國境內嚴重缺貨呢！

★營養師說：
　方晴誼認為，運動不是減重，卻可以讓食物攝取量下降，適度的讓新陳代謝維持，對減肥是有加持效果的！

察言觀色 減重法
★追隨者 凱特溫絲蕾

　拍攝電影「鐵達尼號」時，這位身材豐潤的女主角總被冠上性感豐滿的稱號，之後，她的體重還增加了好幾公斤，不過，她仍以自己70公斤的體重為榮，並自信滿滿地說：「我堅持我的體重，絕不受好萊塢瘦身狂熱的影響。」不過，狠話說沒多久後，她便努力減肥，目前，她的體重維持在58公斤左右。

★理論根據
　凱特溫絲蕾的減肥法，完全來自她多年的摸索，稱之察言觀色飲食療法（face-reading-diet）。她將臉部分為面容、輪廓、線條、皮膚質地（顏色、光澤與潔淨細嫩程度），然後逐一加以分析，了解之後，再利用飲食調整改善，應該進食幾次、補充何種纖維素及礦物質。

★正確吃法
　比如說，早上一起床發現臉部腫脹，一定是吃了太多身體難以吸收或承受的東西，造成體內積水；若是一起床眼睛布滿血絲，肯定是吃太油膩，今天可得少攝取些油脂了！

★營養師說：
　方晴誼認為，營養學有所謂的營養評估，透過身體髮膚的觀察，了解營養吸收的狀況，例如：嘴巴乾代表礦物質、維生素攝取不足；掉頭髮則表示蛋白質的選擇不良；一早起床很疲倦表示你該補充體力了；肩頸感到痠痛，也代表吃了太多油膩的食物；不過，這些症狀通常不會快速出現，當出現時，就表示自己該檢討自己吃下肚的東西囉！