Not news for people who read ingredients and have a basic knowledge of science (like me and probably nearly everyone else who reads this site).

I don't need to play Angry Birds on my Roku. But I do need subtitles.

Sad story, but of course most truckers you'll encounter on the road haven't recently lost a loved one; if they're numb it's simply because they're tired/zoned out, and being flipped off by a**hole drivers is probably something they're already very used to.

Where I live (Oregon) I still see stores adding self-checkout lanes. Overall I find them more convenient because the lines are shorter, but if anything goes wrong and human intervention is needed (which seems to happen to me about 20% of the time - mostly when the machine nonsensically wants me to rescan or take…

I would never eat a mushroom I found based on a short online article that doesn't even have photos for all the mushrooms mentioned.

I second the "shopped" accusation - the eyes in the "smiling" pic look way enlarged.

These days I mostly just pay attention to ratings on Amazon.com and the like, and ignore specs. Even the cheapest printer is good enough for 99% of what I print.

Fact: Nobody needs to read an article to know that nobody needs a $100,000 razor.

I did see a recent study that showed women found brooding men more attractive than smiling ones: [www.cbc.ca]

Chronically late people have always existed, even before there were cellphones. This technique seems like it probably wouldn't accomplish anything, and at worst it will lose you a friend.

Why is there a mouse pointer on an iPad app? Is it because cats like mice? (Bah-DUM-tshhh)

If you want to speed up your morning routine, why stop at taking cooler-than-comfortable showers? Here are some other ideas along the same lines:

I use Backupify, because backing up by downloading all your GMail into a POP client (like Thunderbird) is an exercise in frustration! I've tried it, and found that Google apparently limits how many messages you can download in one go to 200 or 300. That means if you have more than that many message since your last POP…

Just tried it, it's kind of buggy. It kept checking tracks I didn't want at random, and I couldn't listen to the last 1/4 or so of the tracks.

Horde = a lot of people or animals in one place.

Sad story, but also fishy for several reasons: First, was he really looking for the remote or just lighting up? Second, how come they had time to open all the windows, but no time to save any of their pets?

@blash: You are not the target market for smart phones, so this article doesn't apply to you. Move along now, nothing to see here :-)

If you're like me and nobody calls you late at night unless it's an emergency anyway, there's a simpler thing you can do with Tasker - just have it turn down the notification volume during the night. That way you won't hear the various beeps and boops from incoming texts and emails, but you'll still hear calls.

I use DropBox to do this, it's simpler than the options described in this article and it does a lot of other stuff besides (and it's free).

Those photos look like they're just the components of some low-voltage lights installed above a bathroom mirror. Anyway if you were installing a bug, wouldn't you hide it better, and why put it in a bathroom, when bathrooms have a lot of background noise and aren't a typical spot for conversations?