“Don’t fall for this common scam!” Car buyers every day are tricked into clicking through articles like this only to find out they’re not really about someone tricking you into paying more for something than you would if you had all the facts they’re just about seeing through dealer’s marketing schemes.

Let the flaying begin. Example 1: video of an altercation on the street which involved a cop or politician. Example 2: consensual risque photos of another adult. Example 3: Pictures of your kids in the tub.

In GuildWars 2 the player characters are running around the map like airplanes — complete with pilot headgear and character noises.

I think that depends on what you do with the "emotionally hungry" when you recognize it. The apple test (I keep one on my desk) has helped me to make a list of satisfying other actions to take in response to emotional hunger. For example if I'm feeling "locked in" on a crisis and want a snack I might take a ten minute…

The real compelling reason to stop drinking those little packets is the hydrogenated oils in them — just like non-dairy creamer.

I think another potential characteristic is mental illness. I used to participate in a chat room and we had this one guy who would occasionally show up and be really abusive. But if you followed him around to other chat rooms on the site you'd see that he was super religious, and the religion was recent, and…

Yes, keep the system simple. But don't keep the food simple. It needs to be exactly what you want to eat most of the time.

My Mom got into this from a book she read and started saying this all the friggen time and correcting everyone around her on it. It got really annoying. I think it's a good stress management tool; I think it is helpful in reminding us how the tasks in front of us are connected to our bigger goals; but outside of those…

I joined the orange glasses and f.lux brigade about a month ago and I really recommend them. I'm better able to set aside anxieties at the end of the evening and when I wake up, I put on my glasses and I fall back to sleep faster.

Also — Don't buy water. First, bottled water is usually someone else's tap water. Second, a quart bottle of Gatorade goes on sale for $1, but a tub of Gatorade powder is $9 (online, Walmart) and makes 24 one quart servings. Third, a $2 fountain drink contains 25 cents worth of syrup.

I would guess they fall for them in exactly the same way as we fall for advertising, propaganda, and logical fallacies. Looking at a manipulation specimen in isolation makes us feel like of course we'd identify it in the wild but the fact is that we encounter these techniques so often that they are normal in some…

I'm guessing this is exclusive to disposable diapers...

I think the more reasonable application of this is to keep some cloth diapers around for wiping up grease, oil, and bigger messes than you want to use kitchen towels for. http://www.thesimpledollar.com/abandoning-the…

The *right* marinade is sometimes not being so frikin' dogmatic about the healthfulness of your entree. Having to soak your boneless, skinless chicken breast in Italian dressing all day to be able to tolerate is an insult to the chicken's life. Cook it with the bones and skin. Remove the skin on the other end if you…

Honestly, I would rather snack on carrots, radishes, and cucumber (especially English or Persian) than most fruit from the store. Even fruit that's in season is often picked green for shipping and to my tastes never loses the sour note.

Exactly right. One of the terrifying take-aways from Michael Moss's book "Salt Sugar Fat" is how engineered restaurant and packaged foods are. Even steaks are seasoned with layers of salt (marinade and seasoning), sugar (marinade and seasoning), and fat (marbling and coated with oil before and after cooking) to hit…

In the "how to start a fire with nearly anything" section, the techniques you give are for getting a spark. The "nearly anything" should include cotton balls, sanitary napkins, tampons, toilet paper, and bandage wrap — all of which make decent kindling. They can also be boosted along with the fat family (lip balm, lip…

I believe that should be "Colorado Christian University" Being on this list is consistent with their blogging on the issue: http://www.ccu.edu/search/?search…

I believe that should be "Colorado Christian University" Being on this list is consistent with their blogging on the issue: http://www.ccu.edu/search/?search…

Now that I've read the article, I think calling it "best buys" is nonsense. They're listing the products which got good quality ratings by their testers not the ones which are a good value.