We kind of had one, it was under the sink in the shared bathroom on the 2nd floor. It was less of a chute and more of a trapdoor, from the laundry room you could reach up with a hook and open it and then toss all the clothes and towels down. As a little kid I used to throw my socks at my mom down below while looking…

Seriously... it's going to pay off eventually.

Yup going to lifehacker, I like to think of it as procrastination/self improvement.

I'll second this... I live in a large apartment building with shared heat and hot water heater. Both are out more often then they're on, we pay more than many of the apartments around us and were told it's because the water heater and unit heating was included in the rent. Now I just get to pay more for rent while…

Neodynium magnets while really strong compared to most cheap magnets still aren't that powerful once they're more than half inch away from something. The thickness of that board should be plenty to protect stuff sitting on the top shelf of it if they have magnetic media.

Black and White laser because I use it so little that an inkjet just clogs up and dries out by the next time I need it. I occasionally take a thumb drive to Fred Meyers to get a few pictures printed out on kodak paper and for larger format stuff I take it to one of my towns local print shops. Unless you're some kind…

My GOD! We've been looking power sources all wrong. Wind, wave, solar, nuclear and hydro all pale compared to the all mighty potato. It's an energy source, it makes decent vodka and throw it in the ground and it's somewhat self replicating. Sorry, I gotta go hit up some conspiracy theory websites now to confirm my…

Plug a couple electrodes into the potato and you could have a super futuristic self powering potato watch... we really are living in the future! </sarcasm>

I started doing this regularly a couple of years ago. I try to set aside the last five minutes of each day to write up a list of things I haven't finished that day and any major things happening the following morning. That way when I leave work I don't find myself constantly reminding myself of the things I need to…

It's a shame we never really had a chance to recover after the great bedazzler wars of the late 80's. We lost a lot of good men and women to a product that should never have been released to the general public. That machine was only supposed to ever be used by figure skater fashion designers and moms with children…

Great timing! A couple weeks ago I was talking with some friends about getting all my old emulators working on my HTPC and using the Xbox 360 wireless USB dongle for my PC so we can use my xbox controllers in MAME. It's been close to ten years since I used MAME and all the other emulators much. I'm really…

Thanks for the flashback, now I gotta go make my own radio with a crystal and metric ton of super fine copper wire.... My uncle always got me this kind of stuff for birthdays and Christmas when I was a kid. I blame him for my obsession with building electronics with Arduino's and building a 3D printer.... he planted…

Perfect! The crap bouncing around in the back of my girlfriends Durango has been annoying me like nothing else. Now she can have a few crates to store stuff in so it doesn't bounce around the rear end of the truck while driving.

I have some old milk crates, now I'm thinking about putting velcro on the bottom of two of them and sticking them in my girlfriends Durango to keep stuff from sliding around in the back of it. Cheap useful solutions are my favorite!

That's a shame, that rug really brought the room together.

I've built a 5x5x5 LED Cube with an Arduino UNO. I've built a reprap Mendel Prusa 3D printer with a Arduino MEGA2560. A POV led toy with an Arduino NANO and I'm in the middle of building an infinity mirror with a WS2811 individually addressable LED strip. I'm using a line in and piezo mic so the LED's can dance to…

Bandwidth wasn't so much of an issue as it was the argument to get what they wanted, a way to create an artificial meter for a service and create additional sources of revenue.

Dude, I tried, but I'm also dyslexic so it's truly, earth on hell.....

Oh God.... I feel a full on OCD attack about to hit me!!!! MUST PEEEEEEL

Those things do work great (hated it when cables would fall behind the desk) and for the people trying to save every dollar, binder clips do a reasonably good approximation of this.