And here's another reason not to buy "bass heavy" headphones - they're ruining people's hearing. It's not just the bass damaging their ears, it's the fact that there is a tendency to turn the volume up so that you can hear the vocals and other instrumentation which are being masked by the low frequencies. A similar…

I reject this idea that if you listen to hip hop or electronic styles then you're automatically going to want a bass-heavy can. I want to listen to the music as close as possible to how the artist and/or engineer meant it to sound. If it was created to be bass-heavy music, then artificially boosting the low end is…

HDR should only be used, in my opinion, in cases where different exposures are needed in different areas of the scene in order to expose everything correctly. Where it falls apart and looks absolutely crap is as an artistic technique. I remember about 6 or 7 years ago when everyone and their dog were posting endless…

Why on earth would that bother me? I'm not looking to date any of them, for the reasons mentioned above.

I made the switch from butter to coconut oil after giving up dairy a year ago. Now I just drizzle my "butter" on my toast with a spoon :)

I hate to say it but you're absolutely right. I see these things in Manhattan all the time. They line up for the canned food in droves here too. There's a church charity which gives out free food at Tompkins Square Park and when you look at the line, it's 90% Chinese women with those fucking shopping carts. There's no…

From my extensive use of Google products, mainly Google Apps for Business, I've come to the conclusion that they don't think much about the end user and how he or she is going to use that product. They're a very frustrating company and it's been interesting for me to see the change in my perception over the last few…

MIT's classic series of lectures, "The Structure and Interpretation Of Computer Programs" from 1986 are an excellent introduction to computer science and extremely watchable, even if you've never coded a single line. All you need is a firm grasp of logic. The language used is LISP, which is incredibly easy to pick up,…

It's way cooler than memory foam. The buckwheat kernels have lots of little spaces between them to circulate air. They don't hold bad smells like memory foam either.

They're way cooler than memory foam. Think of all of those uneven buckwheat kernels in a pillow case. Lots of spaces between them to circulate air. And they don't hold smells like memory foam pillows.

Yeah they circulate air under your head. I think you might want to try more than one buckwheat pillow - they vary a lot by quality. The first one I saw was a cheap one in Bed Bath and Beyond and it didn't feel very nice at all. I got mine on Amazon and it had great reviews. It feels a lot more comfortable. You might…

All three. I usually start off on my back and alternate between left and right. That's the beauty of buckwheat pillows, they're ideal for back front and side sleeping. You have to kind of "reshape" it under your neck when you switch positions, but I think I'm doing that unconsciously during the night. At least I've…

I think they work for some people and not others. I've also heard people say the buckwheat did nothing for them. What I can't do, however, is sleep on a "regular" pillow. They're almost completely useless. I'd rather have no pillow at all.

I used a memory foam pillow for years and my neck problems persisted, in fact they seemed to get worse. Because I had a blind faith in memory foam I never made the connection. Recently I said enough is enough and bought a buckwheat pillow. What a difference. It's the most comfortable night's sleep I've had in my life…

There are also sports washes which you use in place of detergent that work well. Look on Amazon. Although vinegar works fine. I'm never sure where to put it so I put some in the prewash and main wash compartments.

The trouble with these computerized speed reading techniques is that they're useless when you come to pick up a regular book. My dad's girlfriend learned a speed reading technique years ago that enabled her to drink in entire pages at a glance. She'd look at a page, sort of defocus her eyes as if she was looking at…

I just tried it. The problem I have with Spritz is that when I stare at the same point for too long, everything else around it disappears and I start to feel all trippy and lose concentration.

It's only just occurred to me that there is a Windows 8 Facebook app, and I'm using that now. It's actually the best Facebook experience I've had to date. Almost perfect UI.

It's not an issue of "normal" versus "not normal." The difference is that cranking your heat up is an act of volition, whereas not turning your heat on is essentially doing nothing.

Oh man arguing with people on the internet these days is a frustrating experience. So many people are incapable of understanding the basic nuance of an argument. Yes, humans invented houses to stay warm. They also invented heating. That does not meant that heating is always required, or that "hot" temperatures are…