Another dead giveaway, using the image in the article as an example, is unprofessional behavior. Even if a company like FedEx were to address you simply as "customer," you can bet they'd never, ever include three exclamation points following it.

And if you ever run across a legitimate business that does format emails…

Funny that this article is posted today. Just earlier, on my drive home from work, there were two multi-car accidents that had things horrifically backed up, and I pretty quickly decided to just go ahead, put my car in park, and shut off the engine. It was a bit warm out, but it seemed the most efficient thing to do.

YYYY-MM-DD is also nice for naming files/folders when you want to be able to easily put them in order by date (since you can't always rely on date created/modified).

Outside of that, though, I'm more partial to the 03-JUN-2014 format for dates, as it removes any ambiguity (especially when using them anywhere you might…

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…