Five Nerds hasn’t made much of a secret out of our misunderstanding of AOL, and more importantly, why anyone still needs AOL. 

It appears that AOL editors, Topolsky and Patel concur.

Not long ago, Five Nerds made a semi-tasteless (alright, completely tasteless) joke about the longstanding hypothesis that cell-phones give you cancer.

We said that it wouldn’t be long before people were shouting about the risks of radiating our noggins, and it appears we were right.

Submitted for your reading pleasure, an article about a recent study which suggests that people who use their phones actively have “significantly higher” brain activity in the area closest to the telephone antenna.  The National Institutes of Health study measured glucose metabolism of the brain as an indicator, and it is still too early to predict whether the effects are long-lasting or dangerous. 

The article further suggests that wireless earpieces might be a lower wattage alternative to holding your antenna so close to your dome.

With that said, if you have the choice of radiating your brain, or not radiating your brain, it really doesn’t seem like a choice, does it?

Simple.

You scrape data from Facebook.

Anyone else concerned about their privacy on Facebook now?

Volkswagen gets down and nerdy.

Applying the honeypot theory to Facebook. 

I think some of my friends are already doing this, but until now, I didn’t think there was method to their madness.  (There probably isn’t, most of them are narcissistic, and believe the world needs to know that they think “Domino’s is yummy.”)

In all seriousness, as I’m a big fan of privacy, there might be some merit to this idea.  What do you think?