Agreed - this is very passive aggressive. If you're going to leave after 15 min, man up and call or text that you're leaving because you don't want to wait around for them. Next time you see them, give them a copy of "Never Be Late Again: 7 Cures for the Punctually Challenged". You can't cure a chronically late person…

It's hard to pin these down because the deals change frequently. Some great options become unavailable for new cardholders and sometimes even for existing cardholders. I find the Chase Freedom card is far and away the best with the option of cashing in every $200 in rewards for a $250 check. That puts it on par with…

The real danger of recycling computers isn't in the big metal cases. It's in all the hazardous chemicals bound up in the circuit boards and other parts. I found this NPR article on what happens to our 'recycled' e-waste very eye-opening. [www.npr.org]

I confess I'm in the 'why would I want this?' group too. I desperately want to stream Netflix to my phone in a dozen different situations. The one thing those situations all have in common is they are when I'm away from or not willing to use my computer. I don't want to trash an app I don't understand. I'm just…

I hate sites that require the 'please hack me' security questions. I make sure I give gibberish answers. Favorite pet? Empire State Building. Favorite teacher? Acetohexamide7852MGTAB.

This article sold me on sticking with my Android.

Well said. Moreover, we have a volunteer military - they need to advertise to get recruits. The flyover wasn't for the 80,000 people in the stadium, it was for the 111,000,000 people watching at home. 5-10 seconds of prime Super Bowl air time is worth $500 K.

This is why I don't date tech-savvy women.

@Captain Fish: Actually Ted.com is funded through the conferences, which are quite expensive. I found this Q&A [blog.ted.com] informative. The key excerpt is below. (So the short answer is, the money has to come from somewhere. Either they charge even more for the conferences or they charge for the books.)

@devemouse: I think it would take some insanely advanced software for an accelerometer to determine how fast I'm moving. The accelerometer can't tell if I'm moving at a steady 100 mph or standing still. It can tell if I make a sudden change in speed, but it can't tell if I'm speeding up or slowing down.

Would the driving option require keeping the gps connected at all times? How else would it know your speed?

@flinx1: I can't say it better than you did, so I'll just heart you.

@HarroChan: I think Flash should be in the discussion. I was sold on the iPad until I tried surfing the web with it and found a non-trivial percentage of pages wouldn't work. I've never tried an Android tablet, but on my Android phone, I like that I can enable Flash upon request. I want the choice. Sometimes I care a…

@gizmodocon: That would be a pretty elaborate ruse since the story didn't start here. See [www.electronista.com] and others. The opportunity for linking may just be serendipitous.

@puck3: Nice explanation and illustration of the idea.

@ZachMatthews: By design it only captures 20 minutes. So it wouldn't matter if I was driving like a jerk an hour before the accident, only the 20 minutes up to the accident would be viewable. And if I don't routinely drive like a jerk, there won't be much for the defendant's lawyer to pick on in those 20 minutes.

@nixon.ray: I haven't been able to verify this. It isn't the case with my current password, but I've changed my password recently. If there were limitations on specials characters too, that would result in a pretty small set of possible passwords.

You should see him cross stitch.

On the upside, I can start calling myself 64% vegetarian.

How can it be a good idea to use something with food dye strong enough to stain hair and carpet to clean anything?