That seems good for items you have a lot of, like tomato sauces or if you keep lots of cans of one kind of soup or stock, but otherwise, it's pretty inconvenient, as the hypotenuse cans totally obscure the majority behind them. I've seen some "riser" arrangements that might work better, but we mostly just stack and…

The article is titled and appears to be about "quintessentially Italian cars," not companies. If it was about companies, the pictures would be architectural, not automotive and there would be very few.

You make a very good point, yet there is a surprising amount of not very helpful and patient-focused medicine being practiced out there—at least from my personal experience. I'm not sure I understand the motivation (maybe it is negative motivation—like just going through motions in a job one isn't happy in or maybe…

No need to worry about SOPA—Obama says he's against it. Yeah, that'll take care of it, since it's not like it was written and is being pushed by the current administration's DHS, DoS, and DoJ. Good to raise awareness, but since the Fed don't need no steenkeeng constitution or even legislation to do whatever they…

Ettore Bugatti was born in Milan and if you don't see the Italian design and spirit in his cars, I guess I can't help you. Yes, I know they were produced in Alsace and other locations around central Europe. Is a Toyota not a Japanese car, if it's assembled in San Antonio or a BMW not Bavarian, if assembled in South…

Bugatti. Most quintessentially Italian marque ever, though as far as I know, never produced in Italy. But the heart of Milan beat in those beasts. The Type 35 should've been on this list, certainly above the Lancia DI. There is nothing particularly Italian about squared off hatchbacks.

You can bet JoePa knows all the old jokes about dropping the soap in prison—too bad he probably won't get to be one for his part in this. Still, maybe he can get some edumakashun, since Penn State didn't provide any, from Sandusky during a conjugal visit.

Thanks for the insights. I've got an 8 gb Sansa that I've enjoyed for at least 3 years and still works very well, despite having fallen on it once and kinda messing up the screen. We have a clip in the family, too, but didn't realize it was so much less user serviceable than the Sansa.

Yes, Yes! A trashed career is not all that should happen to people who rape kids and who knowlingly let others get away with it. It's a dayum shame the Supreme Court held that capital punishment is too cruel and unusual a punishment for child rape. There is really no punishment too cruel or unusual for such…

Very cool and I wish them well. Their example may help to lift the prospects of women throughout the Muslim world. One important thing to note—they can race and win in Israel (and maybe in the Emirates), but probably neither they nor any Israeli can in so-called Palestine or any fundamentalist Muslim country.

Maybe search a little to see if anyone's posted about replacing the battery? Or just open it up and discover for yourself. Otherwise, yeah, rockbox or just use it as a wired music player/flash drive.

Lovely. Our tax dollars at work, producing something less than third rate and wholly outside the realm of any appropriate government action. Thanks for bringing this to my attention so I can write my congress people.

Thanks for the excellent, thoughtful response. I think there are a lot of people out here who will better understand the issues now. My mention of PE6.5 was just to add the anecdotal information that a 2.3.4 rom can run very well on an OG Droid. I understand, moreso with your help, that is probably its limit for OS…

Thanks for the information—though my experience has been that Project Elite 6.5 (GB 2.3.4) is the best running rom I've had on liltankdroid. There are issues, but they are pretty app-specific—maps/nav and camera can be a little glitchy, but they were, to varying degrees, in Donut, Eclair and Froyo and in they do…

I've seen some discussion re: alphas of ICS roms for OG Droid/Milestone/Sholes, but haven't found anything that's at a workable beta yet. These liltankdroids have kept on ticking through GB 2.3.4 (at least mine has), so I'd really like to see what it might do with ICS.

There was a post on this issue last week. The problem(s) is/are not so much the phone or OS, but settings issues and a need to clean the cache of GPS info from time to time. Don't know about the Charge, but there's probably one or more good custom roms, including cyanogen, that can wring the last drop of capability…

Mrs. Obama doesn't need a book, explosive or not, to make her unlikeable. She's a haughty, hypocritical Chicago thug. The diet crusade is all "Do what I say, but don't dare think I will." Oh, and don't look while we fake the vegetable garden either. Her insertion of her mentor/doppelganger, Valerie Jarrett, into…

"Acclimate? Why? I live in a modern world with fantastic materials (synthetics and wools), why should I "get used to" being cold, just because it's supposedly better for me?" To be better prepared.

For months after Hurricane Katrina, there were no working stoplights in NOLA, which otherwise is probably one of the most anarchistic driving cities in the U.S. People learned quickly how to deal very efficiently with 4 way stops, because that was every intersection. The rules set forth above are absolutely correct.…

Sensible aclimatizing is the best way to stay healthy through weather changes—cold weather doesn't cause upper respiratory viruses, it merely weakens the immunity of people who don't deal well with cold weather. Enflamed respiratory tissues add to the problem. If one makes the modest effort, as bdinger describes, to…