@spcomputing: If the bag said "briquettes", then yes, it was the wrong stuff. ;-)

@sega8800: I've done this with tea towels, and have used salad spinners as well... Salad spinner is more convenient w/ cleaning up (doing less laundry later), but using towels actually gets your salad done sooner....

Parchment paper is also awesome when baking:

@CamJN: Yeah, I tried to edit my response after re-skimming the article, but it had been too long. Ah well. :)

@revdrkevind: Also - they worked a lot better on CRTs, which were the norm back when they were first available. They eat up some real estate on LCD monitors, making them less useful (can't see the top of your File menu, etc)....

@rawfan: urandom is a lot faster than random, if it's available on your system - you'll save yourself a whooooole lot of time.

Using ls:

@gw.basse: Cygwin doesn't do a perfect job of copying shells, either, so if you're learning a shell, I agree that using something without (much of) a gui is better... :)

@TheFu: Oh, and if you don't have (and can't have) bash somewhere, you owe it to yourself to use ksh instead. Unless all you care about is a super-sweet prompt and c-like syntax, ksh is better than tcsh and csh in every way (IMNSHO). =D

@TheFu: If you know vi (and you should, if you are savvy enough to want to learn how to do stuff from a shell prompt), you can use 'set -o vi' and then use all of vi's commands to modify what's on your command line, cycle through previous commands, etc. [Esc]- v, k, i, I, a, A, cw, R, s/old/new/, etc, become awesome…

@David Wilde: Likewise, if you want to grep for multiple things while sparing cpu cycles, use egrep + regex:

@CamJN: ...and "cd - " takes you to the last directory you were in. Handy if you just went from /opt/perl/perl5/perl5.12/source/INSTALL to /some/other/huge/directory/you/hate/typing and you want to go back without having to copy/paste or type a whole paragraph.

@Marand: So long as your script doesn't require bash (or some other shell)'s functionality instead of plain ol' bourne shell (q.v. arrays, etc etc).

@jupiterthunder: Bah, Vancouver doesn't have rough winters (compared to non-coastal Canada, anyway). Hopefully they are non-slip for the rain, though.

@Priper: You can also use a neutral density filter (or two polarizing filters at an appropriate angle to one another) and a long exposure time, if you don't/can't wait until twilight.

@coffinmouth: I think the article is saying that those people would have had ankle or knee injuries regardless of whether you did static stretching or not. Now, if you're saying "because we put 10 minutes of stretching in" to mean "because we didn't put 10 minutes of active/dynamic stretching in", then I could buy…

@Dukie: Down, R, Up, L, Y B Start, = extreme turbo mode in Turbo SF 2 for SNES.

@ihityouinthenose: There are lots of reasons to not use 'exhaust header wrap' for its intended purpose, but if you need your A/C to work without as much interference from your car's hot underhood temps (and it helps a lot!), split some between several of your friends and wrap just your A/C lines with it. [www.amazon.c…

@Mike Zuniga is a Photographer Apparently: Adorama has done an amazing job with whatever size prints I've wanted (20x30 most recently), and will do matte, glossy, metallic, B&W, etc etc. [www.adoramapix.com]

@Prairie Moon: You can find your ld50 for caffeine right here: [www.energyfiend.com]