It seems some people take to the cookie jar to sidetrack unpleasant thoughts of death. I thought when I took to the cookie jar it made for an excuse to defer a mundane task of some sort. To better understand the link between thoughts of mortality and the urge to consume, Naomi Mandel at Arizona State University, Tempe, and Dirk Smeesters at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, asked 746 ... Read full entry

Google's Cookie monster Google captures details of web surfers' search activities by way of cookies. DoubleClick, a worldwide advertising company captures details of the sites web surfers visit, once again with cookies. Google recently bought out DoubleClick. Once Google compares data from its cookies with the data from DoubleClick, they will know a lot about us. Is this a good thing? For most web surfers a cookie is something ... Read full entry