This big news today is that 1) Spain won the 2010 FIFI World Cup, and 2) Paul the Octopus knew it all along. Paul is an “animal oracle” living at the Sea Life Centre in Germany who correctly predicted the outcomes of 8 consecutive World Cup matches, including Spain’s defeat of the Netherlands in Sunday’s final [...]

In the computer world, hacking refers to coming up with an elegant and novel way of achieving something with software that subverts some previous constraint.   In recent years, computer hacking has inspired a new term called life hacking, which Wikipedia defines as “anything that solves an everyday problem in a clever or non-obvious way.” [...]