Well, it’s the New Year, which means time to make — and try to keep — a set of New Year’s resolutions. And tops among those resolutions is a perennial favorite: losing weight. But this year, the Internet may provide help to the 97% of dieters who say they will need some assistance to keep their resolution. A recent CNet article outlines how weight-loss Web sites help dieters keep the pounds off, saying “it might seem counterintuitive, but many dieters find that sitting in front of a computer and using the Internet helps them to keep those weight-loss resolutions.” Said one dieter, a subscriber of SparkPeople: “I find that I need that motivation from other people who are going through what I’m going through. People are writing you all the time… You learn how to do your portions. You learn how to make good choices with those foods and how to read labels, from the comfort of your own home.”

I spent endless hours as a(n only) child building with Legos. Forty-four years later, my son is doing the same. While a Lego brick is a brick is (still) a brick, some things have changed. Radically changed. Kind of makes me wish I was 8 years old! You see, when I was 8, we didn’t [...]