The "won't grow back" phenomenon may not be scientifically real, but it has a certain experiential resonance: if you haven't shaved your head in years, you don't notice that certain parts of your hair have really thinned out and slowed down their growth. Then you shave it, and you're shocked by how poorly it comes…

There are 6 dots in those 4 screenshots. What's hiding on the additional 2 screens?

I once got hit with a $50 late fee on a rental car because I stopped 20 miles away to gas up and it took me 30 minutes to figure out how to open the gas tank.

http://xkcd.com/1053/

Hey, at least Lifehacker's site design is infinitely better than the one they linked to. I'd much rather read it here...

You got that backwards. Using a little data to learn about your habits and strike better balance in your life isn't being a cog in the machine — it's putting the machine to work for you. Drifting through your days without looking at these things, accepting that life is too busy and too full, is far more Orwellian.

Incorporating skilled volunteers is actually quite hard. As a program director at a non-profit, I've repeatedly had interns and volunteers that just didn't pan out — either they couldn't get up to speed enough to make meaningful contributions, they needed too much micromanagement, or they just weren't that talented.…

I agree — by focusing on the productivity benefits of meditation, this post overlooks at least one other HUGE aspect that almost anyone can benefit from: emotional clarity. Whether it's stress, anger, grief, anxiety, or just the daily highs and lows of navigating relationships (both at work and in our personal lives),…

1) Because you can still play other audio over this (including work related audio).

I'd prefer to start my day by checking my calendar, setting a few major goals for the day, and then ticking off a few small items from Omnifocus. But in reality, I go straight to email, because half my colleagues are 12 timezones away, and there are only a few hours every morning and evening when we're all awake and…

I read that line as meaning you should avoid "lines of text" that cover the whole width, not horizontal rules. In other words, use bullet points, not paragraphs.

Sometimes it helps to click through to the article, rather than expecting LifeHacker to cover all the details in 3 mini-paragraphs and one blockquote.

I think rodj was pointing out the absence of the word "once" — the phrase "the server is only in use every week" makes no sense.