How about saying it "Micro Torrent"?

Well, damn. I just bought the Samsung 840 EVO just over a month ago, but for $90 more. :-\

I guess I'm the odd one here, but I actually prefer cold toilet seats. This is for the very simple reason that a warm toilet seat almost universally means that someone else was sitting there just moments before you–most likely a complete stranger, about whom you know nothing of their hygiene–and that thought mildly…

I'm happy to see you guys took my suggestion to heart and went back to posting Lifehacker's picks up in the main body. :-)

Though, I'm also happy to have you guys continue encouraging community involvement in sharing their own wallpaper selections.

So....you've chosen to make them more difficult to view? Comments can get buried, they get split up, you can't open the images full-screen, and you can't flick through each of them sequentially (while in full-screen).

Just the default Confluence with a few backgrounds changed around based on the media type. I usually only get to see this shot briefly on the main menu, but it still makes me happy every time.

I'm glad to see Cosmosition on this list, or else I would have had to post it myself. I use this as one of my backgrounds in XBMC, and I just love it.

It's not the black bar that people liked. It's all the links on it. It makes absolutely no sense for Google to hide Maps, Translate, etc. under that annoying mini-scrolling-menu. If anything, they should allow per-user customization so that everyone can choose what's important to them. Instead, Google pulled an…

My favorite, too, but I also have the 0.3mm version, which is phenomenal.

Pentel GraphGear 1000 0.3mm — Sturdy aluminum body, and super-fine lead which was always great in college for doing engineering homework. You can write incredibly tiny and still have it be legible.

I came across this issue in college. What I did, however, was design a stand in Solidworks, and then actually make it in my college's woodshop. Basically, just creating a (surprisingly) stable stand and attaching a basic wall-mount to it. There's even a channel running down the center for cables! It's a lot like…

It has nothing to do with anti-glare coatings. Your typical LCD screen employs two polarity filters to simply function. You place them in opposing orientations with the eponymous liquid crystal layer in between, which twists light's orientation from one to the other. Depending on whether electrical current is being…

I actually work for the Boeing facility that produces the CH-47, and even the engineers here are amazed at some of the stunts pilots manage to pull off with this beast of a helicopter.

How is it any different to learn the time/power setting on your microwave to achieve the perfect temperature than it is to learn the time/power setting on your stove or electric kettle?

Sure, it might take a little experimentation and a thermometer because it's not something you're accustomed to doing, but once you…

Okay, not technically something I'm currently using, but at my previous internship, I used a program called ANOPP for aeroacoustic noise prediction. While there have been more recent additions to the program, the core of it is essentially the same.

So, how old is it? Well, let's just put it this way: the manual to…

Am I the only one who saw the original photo and took it for what it was: mild surprise at seeing a woman with a highly uncommon amount of facial hair?

The author here says "The mind of european_douchebag was SO INCREDIBLY BLOWN by the fact that women have hair on their bodies"—but this instance very obviously isn't…

Well, halogen lights currently meet the standard, and they're incandescents. Also, I've read about some companies experimenting on the more familiar incandescents—altering the material of the filament, etching it with lasers, etc.—that achieved greater efficiency, though whether those are cost-effective are another…

Well, yeah, I get why something like this would be featured in such an article, but I don't know why anyone would need to do it in the first place. At least class it up and use keyrings or something. There's just something about wripping the tops of soda cans and using them that seems so trashy to me.

I'm sorry, but using soda can tabs? I suppose that works, but man is it tacky. Why not just hang one hanger around the neck of the other? Accomplishes the same goal and you don't have little pieces of garbage everywhere.

Just to clarify, the wingtip vortices are always there, not just upon landing.