Facebook Passwords, Sperm Counts And Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case.

Fatherhood Is Bad for Your Sperm Count

You know what happens when you have a kid? You don’t sleep any more. You flush your bank account clean. Oh, and science informs us that your sperm count also plummets for a few months. Which maybe isn’t the worst thing! At least that way you’re less likely to have even more mouths to feed.[imgclear]

Your Facebook Password Works with Inverse Cases

It’s not so much a security flaw as it is the world’s most boring parlor trick: your Facebook password will also work with uppercase and lowercase letters reversed. That is to say, password and PASSWORD work equally well, as would pAsSwOrD and PaSsWoRd. But! If your password is password then pAssword won’t work. See? Boring. But fun to do once just to prove to yourself that it works. [ZDNet] [imgclear]

Twitter Web Analytics

Twitter is adding web analytics! Which means you, website publisher, you will now have, uh, analytics for your… website? I dunno, I personally measure success in the number of rabid Belieber RTs I get. [Twitter]

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