Right... so I was just recording this anonymous woman in the library for absolutely no reason. I mean I was siting there taping her with my phone/camera clearly pointed at her in a non-stalkerish way that no one would notice for no reason whatsoever. AND HILARITY ENSUED! How did that happen! I mean what are the odds…

The ALS that is destroying Hawking's brain is doing so by destroying the motor neurons, the very neurons used to sync with these arms. See those little boxes on the people's heads, right below that is your motor cortex. Since Hawking's is probably mostly gone there would be nothing cohesive for them to map from his…

The problem with your line of thinking is that you assume that the normal course of thinking is "I want this phone where can I get it for the cheapest". The other thing you could do is simply decide that you can live without an iPhone, which means you can live without contracts. After not renewing my verizon contract…

Fun verizon story I'll throw out here. About a year ago they told me that I needed to upgrade my data plan for my LG chocolate touch phone. This was going to cost 10$ more a month per phone (I had 2) but was mandatory according to them. So I do it, then I call them a month ago wanting to cut back my services to save…

KFC double down? Here I come!

Fucking Mayans were right.

Wait... you mean that the dusty old CN Tower in Canada (Canada!) is taller (553 meters) than this glaring piece of crap that is supposed to represent everything ever about rebuilding and Americas ability to withstand hardship and a beacon of light and whatever else it is supposed to be about? Yeah, I would have…

No it's not devoid of a left wing it is just that the right wing gets infinitely more press than the left. I don't know if that is just a function of them shouting louder or some implicit media bias or something, but they dominate the public discourse in a way unheard of in Canada for any religious group.

Thanks. That was very informative. While I was reading your reply it occurred to me that part of the answer probably also lies in the evangelical movement in the US that seems non existent in Canada. I know almost nothing about the evangelical movement though and so I won't render a guess as to why it caught on in the…

Infinity explains everything.

It's an interesting thing. Having grown up in Canada I grew up with plenty of religious people around, but there was always this unspoken social norm that religious things were between you and your god not you and the public at large. Religion was a private thing. That, in part, kept it sacred. Now I live in America…

Cool. Thanks lifehacker! Any idea how to get this cloud drive to accept folders for upload?

Cool... thanks. I will totally give that a try, they sell them at my Home Depot.

Chinch bugs. Please help me find a way to kill them without insecticides.

Is there any kind of editorial theme left at Gizmodo? I don't see how F-35 flight formations and videos for stoners and inflatable Stonehenges have anything to do with one another. It seems like Gizmodo (and Gawker while we are at it) are just places for the people employed by them to post stuff they think is neat-o…

What you've said it true, however that is not the established pro-Mac talking point in the war against microsoft. That talking point was "Macs never get viruses but windows PCs get them constantly so Macs are awesome and windows PCs will destroy your life." but in all caps and with 6 exclamation points at the end. So…

If that douchebag commentator doesn't stop saying "juicy rebound" I'm going to go borrow a shotgun and shoot out my TV. I hate that guy sooooooooooooo much.

Ok Lifehacker, look... I've been a long time reader and I'm certain that at various times you've told me to pepper to my laundry AND that at various other times you've told me to add salt, both with the purpose of brightening clothes.

Does it have a huge upside? How many evangelicals and Floridians are going to go buy a Jets jersey? Denver is clean-cut and libertarian, New York not so much and the Jets especially not. So given that it's hard to support Tebow as a Jet without supporting the Jets, I see that having a kind of breaking effect on…

I live in Florida and preliminary reports (from my relatives) show a crushing sense of disappointment that Tebow went to The North. It will be interesting to see what happens to Tebowmania now. Are Floridians and evangelicals really going to watch the Jets play just because Tebow is one of them? Colorado was…