Are 14 jugs really necessary?

What's the risk to the cd/dvd player head? It seems like getting some vaseline on the laser would be bad.

Clever trick. The fact that none of us will ever use this, doesn't change the fact that it is a fun post.

@rzd: It depends how much slack is in the chain. The chain should be short enough so that it will only reach the release point when the door is shut.

@nmillerche+lifehacker: I can't believe I'm saying this, but that was really cool.

@nerve11: Quick unless your hacker assumes no one would ever be dumb enough to use a two character password and skips those combinations, in which case it would be unbreakable!

The two minute rule should come before delegating. Also some items fall into a file for reference or tickler file category.

@dangerp: Allen also points out, and you've nicely illustrated, that lack of efficient downstream systems is what causes the pile-up. Making a new file cost time. Processing and cleaning my built up files cost more time. The black-or-white label it or trash it approach is too extreme.

I rather get a warning email sent to the backup email addy gmail asks for.

@infmom: The effects of folate (folic acid) are a current topic of research and not fully understood. There are some studies (ref below) suggesting folate can prevent cancer and other studies that show it can exacerbate existing cancers. Results going in both directions have been seen for colorectal, breast, and…

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.