The HUGE Who-gets-taxed problem aside, there are more obvious answers...

It also depends on your idea of "hard" and "live". I have a family of 5 - myself, my wife, my daughter, age 7 & 5 year old son, and a baby boy we're in the process adopting - and we live very comfortably, in Jacksonville Florida, on $51,000 a year. Both my wife & I work, and she's close to finishing graduate school,…

If you don't want to scroll down, Twitter on your regular phone is 40404. I still use it today.

I'm going to say the bird stealing a phone is actually likely. There was a video circling the internet of someone who had a bird snatch their phone while the phone was filming... it's a pretty cool video. and accurate.

Am I reading this wrong? I'm pretty sure it's saying you get 100MB of free data per month... with the ADDITIONAL option of paying $80 for 2 years of 3G.

I would LOVE a backlit E-Ink Smart-er phone. I'm finding that having an internet accessing tablet for apps alongside a "dumb" phone is incredibly useful - I can take calls while surfing on Verizon, for example. But most importantly is the battery life - I love the battery life on my Kindle 3-Keyboard, even with the 3G…

Out of curiosity, will this work with horseflies as well? So far, those little buggers are the worst part of moving beyond the suburbs

If you already have a mounting bracket (from all of the above given, or anything you've tried in the past), this is the best, cheapest bike light you can have. These LED flashlights are bright and incredibly cheap. However, one usually isn't enough. I have a pair mounted, one on each handlebar. My father uses three,…

I usually ride with one earphone in, on the right side. It's enough for me to hear whatever I'm listening to, with my left ear - the one closest to traffic - being completely free. Speakers are bulky, non-weather-resistant and overall don't usually work, and those helmets with earphones built in are really, really…

When I first saw that logo, I was kinda taken aback... it makes sense for the "windows" logo to actually look like a window... but I thought I had seen that logo before.... and I had. Microsoft vs Jesus, commence.

Dragon Dictation is the best transcription app... just make sure you're at the very front of the class. Don't know if they do recording transcription though.

I use the Awesome New Tab Page Chrome Extension. It's pretty, well, awesome. But most of my navigation is use of bookmarks on the bookmarks bar without words (i.e. just icons)

"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." — Response to Edwin L. Drake in 1859.

I will totally and unabashedly second this. As a father of 2 kindergartners, there's no point in trying to buy coloring books of things my children like - after all, they're only going to like them for a week. This week, Spiderman and My Little Pony; Next week, Angry Birds and Team UmiZoomi.

Exactly. There will undoubtably be $500 and sub-$500 Surfaces in the near future. But right now there's the IT-Department-Cringing iPad and full laptops for commercial and business users. A Full-Windows Tablet with today's technology simply doesn't exist, and the entire corporate world has been begging for something…

They call it "Surface", because the original Microsoft Wonder-device has always been called Surface. It started with the idea that Microsoft would turn every part of your living room - every surface - into an interactive computer. They started with smart-board-esque projection computers, them moved on to the…

"People want to give us money to watch our content, and we told them no. Now, for some reason, they're stealing it. Pirates!!!"

I believe the main reason they left it off of the original Kindle is so you wouldn't feel like you were 'losing' something when they introduced the Special-Offers Kindle.

These aren't former anachronisms from earlier versions of twitter... they're "twitter".