I love that Gina and Adam are if not anti-moleskine, at least practical enough to use cheap-o's.

@OMG!StopItWithNASA!_GitEmSteveDave: As far as I know, only a small percentageof landfills presently process methane. Quick google search seems to indicate a rapid increase.

@mfusion: @phoenix: And when they do biodegrade, they release much more methane than they would if used in the garden where they'd provide nitrogen. Methane is a particularly potent greenhouse gas.

@LeroyDerro: My thoughts, exactly. Placing them in a rag seems rather pointless unless maybe you're arthritic and need a medium in the rag to get a better grip, and even then it seems there are any number of better fillers. Also, coffee grounds left to the drain can wreak havoc, albeit over time, on some plumbing…

@Duane: I think there's too much willful ignorance involved in he support of Moleskine products. It doesn't leave a lot of room for impassioned defenses.

"I appreciate the quality of Moleskine, but I still do all my analog work in regular old notebooks. I don't require anything special, just paper with some lines."

@paqman: You wouldn't have to figure out new tools if you instead bought a 4 gig shuffle with proprietary headphones for the same price as the 30 gig Zune. No screen = no confusion, and proprietary headphones make things pretty easy, too. Not to mention that you have 26 fewer gigs of storage, so you'll be able to find…

I buy rice in giant bags from a local Asian market. I think I get 25 lbs. bags. They last me several months, and save me a bundle over repeat buys of smaller bags at typical grocery stores.

God, when will people realize that there are dozens of notebooks out there that hold up better, look just as good and have much nicer paper than the Moleskines? Oh yeah, and the alternatives almost all come in at much lower prices.

@tartooob: Must be something specific to my PC.

IE8 takes for-ev-er to load on my perfectly capable PC. I could load Chrome, Opera and Firefox, sequentially in the time it takes IE8 to get up and running. Maybe I had a bum install, but so far Microsoft's not exactly winning me over with IE8.

@baquwards: Tramontina is another brand that made some multi-ply, clad-on-a-budget cookware. It was sold at walmart of all places. More or less the same thing as allclad, but at about %30 of the price. I don't think walmart sells it anymore, but there are online retailers that still carry it.

@Dragofix: Your body is actually able to digest only a small portion of antioxidants from most vegetables if consumed raw. It's probably one of the less healthy ways to consume vegetables unless you're only seeking calories, for which there are any number of better sources.

@topaz420: It's not a good idea to eat all or the majority of your veggies raw as your body digests very little nutrient value from raw veggies. It's very easy to get any number of vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

@kagekiri: I assume since the article specifies an absence of oil that stir-frying isn't what the doc's mentioning.

Cookware is one that doesn't use any kind of fuel. Cheaper pots either warp or have non-stick coatings and should ideally be replaced after a few years of regular use, where as one good set of pots (All-Clad, Le Creuset, Staub, to name a few) will literally last a lifetime. There's also more incentive, for me, to cook…

@k12IT: Yeah, I used Spyware S&D a lot until DL the free version of SUPRERAntiSpyware and realizing how much Spybot missed. I ran them back to back for months and Spybot would come back clean every time while the other would always catch something.

Spyware S&D misses almost everything on my computer. Maybe it's the type of malware I'm most exposed to that Spybot is particularly apt at missing, but my other programs (SUPERAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes) always catch them.

Jay Cutler used to frequent one of my favorite bars during the Vanderbilt years. McDougal's Village Coop. They sold PBR tall boys in buckets of 5 or 6, and Jay's table was always littered with empty buckets. He made it this far as a lush, so what's the big deal.

@ShariC: I don't think I've had reason to use minced or crushed garlic without also having reason to use a knife. I also find it pretty easy to make a uniform mince. Takes me just as long to mince garlic as it would to use a press, and I prefer the flavor of minced garlic.