So which cards offer one time use numbers? Citibank offers it both as a installable program and online with no install. I couldn't find a one time use option for Chase or Discover, although Discover used to have it so I may just not see it.

@michaelmendez86: Good point about faster monitoring. A number of my cards have custom email alerts I've set up to alert me of the activity on my cards.

The paper's authors are at least arguing that this is likely to turn out to be a causal association, though that hasn't been established yet. Abstract at [www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

I like to cube all my personal statistics. I'm 9 cubic feet tall. I tested at 125,000 cubic IQ points. I earn 8 billion cubic dollars a year.

VOTE: TurboTax online.

I've found rolling deadlines help with Parkinson's law. It's often hard to determine how long a project will take at the beginning. We'll often give ourselves a week to finish a project and by the end of the week understand why it will take an additional two weeks. So we roll the deadline back for two more weeks. …

@faust: "Life is not about being liked. It's about being effective." And that guy is neither.

@bayXSonic: I think ShootDawg is referring to the ubiquitous "business card jar" at lunch restaurants. You drop your card in and they randomly draw one out for a free lunch. If you have an email addy on your card, the lunch may even come with free spam.

@Zinger314: Why I appreciate the spirit of rule #1, it's completely wrong. If you randomly split 10 subjects with 5 getting the drug and 5 getting the placebo and you observe all drug subjects' outcomes turn our greater/less than all placebo subjects, you'll have a two-sided p-value of 0.008. That would be a very…

I like Napster. With Napster I get unlimited streaming and 5 DRM-free downloads per month for $5/mo.

@bdgbill: Lucas didn't pull in any cash from Spaceballs, but he did restrict what they could do. He and Mel Brooks made a fair use agreement that prevented Spaceballs from doing things like marketing any merchandise.

I love the prospect of minimizing my mouse usage. In deciding to try gleeBox, I found it useful to first check out the native keyboard shortcuts in FireFox at [support.mozilla.com]

I have a 2010 Prius under the recall and unfortunately got to experience the ABS braking problem first hand last night. Going downhill at 5 mph, I and the car in front of me both hit a patch of ice. We both braked. He started to slow down. I didn't. I quickly hit my emergency brake with my left foot and came to a…

You won't look like a secret agent anymore, but a crowbar makes the credit card trick a lot easier.

Obviously this suggestion is only for people who find the constant temptation of having a credit card too dangerous for them. It's like having chocolate in the pantry for me. Sooner or later, I'm going to give in.

I was excited about trying Zotero, but it increased my Firefox start up time considerably. It was frustrating enough that I uninstalled it. If there is a way to keep it from bogging down Firefox except when called upon, I'd try it again.

@Monamo: The Tekkeon looks slick. I've been using the APC Mobile Power Pack (link below) for close to 10 years now. No frills, but it's held up great. But it still retails around $60 which is what I paid a decade ago.

Regarding the automation of the song list creation, some mp3 players have a sleep timer that will shut off the player at a specified number of minutes. Set the player on random and the sleep timer for 30 min. The last song will probably cut off in the middle, but that's not a big deal.

@Fase: CutePDF is a better solution because it can pdf anything you can print. PdfMyUrl can't do this. For example, PdfMyUrl can't print my calendar or print an email from gmail. It only prints the login screen, even when I'm logged in.

@JeffPom: I think Gmail's threaded conversation format is great, but you are not alone in hating it. In Gmail's labs forum, there are tons of irate suggestions demanding the ability to turn off threading. The complaint of lost replies is frequent. No indication from Gmail that they ever intend to make threading…