Gadget Links: D-League Edition
- BlackBerry Orphans on WSJ.com: "As hand-held email devices proliferate, they are having an unexpected impact on family dynamics: Parents and their children are swapping roles. Like a bunch of teenagers, some parents are routinely lying to their kids, sneaking around the house to covertly check their emails and disobeying house rules established to minimize compulsive typing." [ Subscription probably required. ]
- Is Marathoning Too Much of a Good Thing for Your Heart? on NYTimes.com: "This has been an unusual season for the cardiac health of marathoners. After years in which almost no deaths were attributed to heart attacks at this country’s major marathons, at least six runners have died in 2006." [ Free subscription required. ]
- It's easier to give than to return from the Seattle P-I: "The way retailers are going about tracking returns, there's no differentiation between fraudulent buyers and consumers who legitimately need to return things. It's essentially a blacklist." [ From Martin O'Donnell ]
