I tend to agree with reuthermonkey here.

Using a small amount of vaseline around your nostrils will stop a percentage of irritant particulates, (pollen etc) from entering your lungs. It all helps to lower your symptoms.

I've indulged in the odd tomato* plant here and there over the years. The thing the consistently sticks in my mind is the fact that there are way more deaths from alcohol abuse than the misuse of tomatoes*. On this basis I've never really understood the state's obsession with cracking down on tomato* lovers.

If the nations 'fighting terrorism' put as much energy and resources into working for peace as they do in preparing for war, (including the manafacture and assembly of huge armies and arsenals) they the world would not only be a much better place but we wouldn't need all this kind of 'protection'.

Yeah, that is true, (well some of the time anyway, to be fair they're not quite that insular all the time).

Great idea Google for US citizens, except, um, it doesn't work in the UK. When are you thinking of making it available to the rest of the world?

I'm a Londoner and I live in the UK. I don't know anyone personally who lives in New York.

Vote: Screenium

I brought Screenium some time ago, (I think following a positive Lifehacker review in fact) which a crackingly good little program. I'm not sure what this program does that Screenium doesn't (and it is $29) but I would definitely recommend it.

Here's one I took earlier, as the saying goes...

Technology itself is completely neutral, the problem comes in, in terms of how the prevailing ruling class incorporate it into the running of the larger society.

Oy vey!

Having just tried to click on the blinking link above, I can confirm it takes you to the Android Apps of the Week page, ([gizmodo.com] How terribly amusing.

University of Life, lesson No.1: If something sound like it's too good to be true, it probably is.

I, along with several others it would seem, also hate this layout.

Accept no substitute: [youtu.be]

That's a pretty rubbish attitude from the airline staff. Having said this, the earlier incident probably didn't help him with their ability to go the extra mile for him, (not that this was his fault).

Slight update: I've just found out that the pen is a biro. Yeah, you read that right, a bloody biro.

Two descriptive words:

To a degree you're right, but as long as criminals are the ones who sell this shit it'll be cut and cut again to make it go further and increase profits. And as long as we have an elitist society that excludes and marginalises some of the inhabitants, some people will take drugs to minimise the drudgery of their…