This is one of my all-time favorite gadgets. Sadly, the firearm pictured is entirely wrong for home defense purposes (it's a .22 rifle—I recommend a 20 ga. shotgun loaded with bb or goose shot—buckshot tends to over-penetrate). The idea of the bedside rack or a pocket hanging from the rail or mattress/boxspring is…

I was honored to know two gents, friends' fathers, who were U.S. Marines in the Pacific in WWII. Both fought in fairly early waves on, I believe, Tarawa and Iwo, among other bloody beaches. Neither knew of the other's service until late in life, though their sons were close friends and neither ever openly told of…

Search for "Buckminster Fuller dymaxion car" Read up and be amazed. Nothing new here, move along.

Just think of it as an intelligence coupon.

Really—who cares to read the fish-wrap of record? Better not to give them the traffic and let her die, before all dignity is lost—oh, wait—Jayson Blair, Zachery Kouwe (plagiarists) + utter lack of any semblance of political objectivity. Too late.

Yeah, hashmarks on a pad or dry-erase board hung on or near the changing table. I don't think we ever kept track of these things with our two boys—stuff just happened. So long as el nino got bigger (after the normal, initial, post partum weight dip) and didn't turn yellow (bilirubin) (one did—extra fluids and…

TheFu is 100% correct on this—in fact, debit cards are, imho, only for people who need some kind of card, but cannot be trusted to spend with any discipline. They are horrible for the reasons in Adam's post and in the event of fraud or theft, because the money just flies out of your account and it becomes your…

Most of the issues mentioned by coolaaron88 are resolved by using well-developed roms. I've gotten dramatically better battery life with each new rom I've tried. I make battery life, stability, and efficient use of my OG Droid's limited resources the selection criteria when I browse for rom-age. I've been able to…

I like my viewsonic gtab pretty well, especially for the price/performance ratio. Tegra2 based for under $300, if you watch for deals. It must be rooted and romed to amount to much, but wouldn't you do that to any Android device? I'm not very techy and I certainly would and do.

ummm, yeah; not knowing about the rear view mirror toggle is kinda on par with not knowing about the high beam switch in a car. Still, it's good to give people knowledge. The "night" mirror setting does work well when the sun is directly behind you in the morning or evening. One thing a lot of people who know about…

@TheMonkeyKing: Yeah, u rite, Cap!

Andrew11 makes an excellent point about our consumer culture and how self-destructively far off the rails it has gone—"...food industry doesn't give two shits if their consumers are healthy. They want their consumers to THINK they are healthy..." Agreed, marketing has become increasingly deceptive and focused on the…

With over the air HD programming available, anyone would be crazy not to take advantage of it. Use downloading resources (bandwidth, bittorrent download slots, etc.) for things you can only get that way. Besides, much as we hate most commercials, sometimes they are the best part of the show—particularly local…

Can't androids spoof locations, at least via wifi? Maybe requires root and custom rom, but seems like all roms I've had on OG Droid (CM6, Sapphire, PE, and Liquid) all had this as an advanced setting. Just don't remember it it was there stock. It is ludicrous that the UK, of all countries, should be excluded from a…

Agree on the zoom—need to be able to get in close without physically intruding on the ceremony etc. Be super sure you fully understand how flashes sync with any cameras you might possibly ever in any unlikely event use them on. There is nothing worse than coming up with a roll of photos shot with flash out of sync…

Beckfield is right about the long exposure issue—please ignore brain infarct above. Also, re: other moon photos—most of the photos of the moon that you see that look the way a big, full harvest moon looks to the human eye (i.e., with stuff in the foreground) are manipulated images—usually double/multiple exposures. …

You would need a significant telephoto lense or a large format camera to get any detail in a picture of the moon. You would also need the ability to take a fairly long exposure photo with a moderate aperture setting (smaller apertures=more detail, but less light, thus the need for longer exposure time). Being able…

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It's all worth it if PermissionCat will knead your back with partially extended claws and give you love bites when you happen to stroke that perfect spot.

What, exactly, is "restaurant style" cooking? Last I checked, there are as many different "styles" as there are different restaurants. In NOLA, admittedly a radical forinstance, we can get just about anything for a reasonable price. Some of it many people wonder whether it is really properly consumed by humans. …