I call BS.

Interesting point, but even if it's true, you fail to take into account that if you decide to adopt an exercise regime, that means you won't be sitting as much. Your comparison to smoking makes no sense, since the smoking itself damages your health. Sitting is not in itself damaging to your health, it's prolonged lack…

Maybe they were, I've pretty much switched to rechargeables for the last couple of years.

Love how now Lifehacker is pushing the "I liked Google before it was mainstream" hipster attitude around here. Even after becoming the huge company they are today, they still respect their customers/users. I think about the only valid big complaint people have against Google is privacy issues. To be honest, I really…

What devices like the iPod need are better heatsinks, or at least the option to add a separate accessory that augments the standard "slim" passive heatsink. I really couldn't care less about having the thinnest phone on the block (amateur psychologists must love the current design phenomena of "thin is better"), I'd…

Generic brands often last a LOT less than brand name batteries. I'll give you an example: generic dollar store batteries consistently last about 20 minutes of use in my digital camera, whereas the brand names tend to last many hours.

Also to be noted that cheap chocolates often don't even have cocoa, or have very little, in them.

That XKCD comic is talking about basing your password on "morphing" a word, such as substituting letters with similar looking characters, capitalizing random letters, adding a number or two to the end.

For some reason I read "Microgoals" as "Microgels"

I too fear the hackers on steroids, no one's safe now that they have control of the Internet Hate Machine D:

I agree, unless you have a really shitty computer, the splash screen should only be there for 3 seconds tops :P

Thought title was "YifIt", nearly shat my pants in horror.

Just leave a fan running during the night. It may bother you at first, but after a while you'll get used to it, and it will help to block out noises coming into your room, and leaving. The nice difference between the sound of a (real) fan vs white/[insert color here] noise is that it has a nice muffled sound, without…

If I had a nickel every time I saw "[insert target here] violated the first amendment", well, you know.

These middle eastern governments really need to get their heads out of their asses, and get out of the fucking stone age.

Stealing implies depriving the owner of the original property. You can't compare copying something to the theft of property/unpaid labor. The key difference is that the recording artists record their album once. Then they sit back and drink martinis. They are not constantly re-performing their song every time it is…

Let me point out to you that not one person/corporation has declared bankruptcy as a result of piracy. The small garage bands with no agent? No one pirates their shit. Peter Jackson's latest movie? Damn, no diamond-studded jet I guess.

Cute how when it's PSN that's down, everyone rages, but when it's the FBI's website, "Anonymous is a pretty cool guy, eh kills MiBs and doesn't afraid of anything."

Strange, you seem to be the only one convinced of that.

Are you serious? All of these names are well known, heck, they're probably already on the RIAA's list of "sites to sue".