I like the idea of using a stylus on the screen.

[io9.com]

I assume it's because they're violating Job's anti-stylus decree-from-on-high.

I'll have to remember to check that out at home.

Yeah, they're two of my favorite shirts.

This one lives at GTMO, or it did as of a year and a half ago, and I strongly suspect it still does.

Also, the Velma/Scooby shirt sometimes makes little kids cry. Caveat emptor.

I never really liked Scooby Doo. But, the best thing about Scooby Doo, by far, is this Threadless shirt. In fact, its awesomeness so strongly contrasts with Scooby Doo's actual crappiness, it makes me hate Scooby Doo even more.

A slight head tilt always helps.

Would it be better to develop a [....] Power Glove?

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I agree— modular arithmetic is fun. It's how you can quickly calculate the ones digit (or tens or hundreds or... though considerably less quickly at each successive place value) of something like 7 to the 578,321st power without a calculator.

Sorry— I misread your comment, seeing "It's" as "I" and filling in from there.

The fact that that section didn't mention writing down anything at all has already been addressed. If I had made the assumption that you meant writing down the encoded version when you didn't say anything about writing, then I wouldn't have asked.

Commit your PIN to memory with math. Another, more advanced suggestion is to use Modular Arithmetic to secure your PIN. Here's how it works: you know how difficult it is to fool yourself into getting up earlier because you set your clock back 5 minutes? You'll always look at the clock and know to subtract 5 minutes to…

I also had no idea. I've not been paying attention to the John Carter stuff, but the little bit I had heard sounded like a truly terrible movie. But, I'm a huge Chabon fan, so...

someone who had a hissing cockroach get lost in my pants on a stage at the mall when I was 7

I don't get weirded out by large bugs. At that size, they're like rodents. Just, with the skeleton on the outside. But, a bug that big can't sneak into the house through some tiny gap in a door's weatherstripping. Or into my ear.

If you're carrying your smartphone around in your back pocket, hanging halfway out, you may need to question some of the life decisions that've brought you to this point.

Pour... milk.... what? No... Just pour the cereal into the milk carton. Easy peasy!