_If_ the airline is assured that there are very few 'rebels' there might not be a danger. But the greatest danger in most endeavours is over-confidence or, as in your case, a "doesn't matter anyway" attitude. The safety you feel is _because_ all the other things that the airline does _not_ leave to chance. …

The Sony PRS-600 can charge with a PSP3 connection! I bought a gaming octopus cable and it charges my eReader, Blackberry, personal cell, and a couple other things, to boot.

My standard breakfast at work or on the go, is to scoop a half-cup of oats into a half-cup tupperware container (using the container), add the dash of salt(!) and table-spoonish of brown sugar. At work, I toss it into a mug, and pour boiling water until it covers the oats. Stir, sit a few minutes. Perfect! No real…

A metal strip and magnets. If you want thin wood instead, use 2-3 nails on the wood, and push tacks into the strip where you can use magnets. I started doing this to keep from putting holes in maps and posters I wanted to mount.

Having used a Keurig for a week visiting relatives, I won't buy one because it is a big step downwards environmentally. Not only the plastic you throw away with every cup, but also the fact that it draws electricity even when off.

VOTE: Sony

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I like it! I wish I had it as a stock answer (!) because it usually becomes very obvious that I can't do stock answers.

This is a great idea and not complicated if you are shortening a cable with the appropriate ends; a little harder if the ends come from different cables. I nix on the cheap ones after too many attempts to use them to find that they worked sporadically.

You can dismiss the idea of whether ads are or are not inherently bad by considering that the purpose of ads is to get something for the person advertising, be it sales, votes, or on a longer scale changing a societal paradigm.

Take out the derogatory second sentence, and you may have a point there (speaking as a non-American without a stake in your politics).

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I hate gratuitous files, such as shortcuts, so I do two things.

I did the cost analysis years ago, and it came out to be a little over six months if we bought used, so we did. 2 things to note. One, if you use a laundromat, you tend to be more careful with your clothes and don't wash as much to save on the inconvenience. Two, if I were to do the calculation now, I would analyze…

There are many Print-to-PDF utilities out there that do not force a watermark. I use doPDF myself, but there are many others.

After more than 40 years the best work on the use of 'misfit' ideas is Edward do Bono's "Lateral Thinking" and the concept of PO, or Provocative Operator. He said it all. This article has merit, but for depth, read the source of lateral thinking development.

My only problem with the pillow case idea is that by the end of a week you have more clothes than fits in the pillow case, and few clothes in the luggage. I came across a lightweight duffel bag (little more than a nylon sack) a few years ago that I use for this on all my trips. We put our laundry in there, and as…

Getting a chance to try it in 5 min...it's hot out there

Consider a used D40 (low end Nikon, and probably still the best beginner DSLR ever made) or D90 if you cannot afford a D3100 or D7000 respectively. All Nikon lenses are interchangeable with any model. I often keep my D40 with a 35mm single-focus normal (non-zoom) lense on me because it weighs so little and can take…

Believe it or not our local nursery sold food grade DE, very inexpensively. I am told some health food stores or your local environmental store does as well.