Going way out on a limb here...

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but you cannot buy a LifeStraw retail, can you?

You would have to have it within reaching distance though the article suggests it as part of a first-aid kit which is likely to be way out of reach in the trunk. If you were rear-ended, it's unlikely it would be accessible at all.

I had a college roommate who tried Welches-to-wine on the cheap in our dorm room:

People hung out on their front porches hoping for a breeze — and getting to know their neighbors. Now we stay cocooned in coolness. We go from air conditioned houses to air conditioned cars to air conditioned offices, often without ever stepping outside if garages are in the picture.

A Russian mathematician's work in the 50s, which was ignored by his countrymen, was the basis for the birth of the USA's stealth technology. IIRC, he showed that the size of the radar signature of an aircraft or ship is dependent on it's shape and not it's size.

Google Product Search shows this wine going for $144 to $260/bottle, depending on the vintage and the e-tailer.

Three days ago, I was in a small restaurant on the fringe of our wine country in Oregon for dinner. The wine list included two wines priced at $2K per bottle. The friendly waitress/part-owner remarked, "Oh, you found them! Which one would you like?" to which I replied, "I cannot decide - how about both?" It's a good…

I disagree; lobbyist MAKE loopholes for their clients by greasing politicians' reelection campaign funds.

The Newcastle Beer Schooner is a nice glass for a tasty beer. Too bad Newcastle is too spendy to fill their glass very often.

This is not a new trick for me at all — I've been doing it for perhaps 30 years.

I've got a pair of supernumerary nipples just as shown in the photo with the arrows. I never even noticed them until they were pointed out to me during a sports physical in the 70s. For the record, my chromosomes are XY.

My father started building the oldest one in the slideshow — the VariViggen. He took an intensive machine shop class so he could make all the metal components himself — you only bought plans, not parts of a kit. He barely got started when Rutan came out with the VariEze plans, which totally blew-away the…

We used to light them most anywhere — a rock, your zipper, or if you were talented, by quickly sliding the tip down the outside the leg of your jeans

Netflix outed themselves. This was on the inside of the tear-off flap on the envelope from yesterday's Netflix delivery:

Everyone has to draw a line in the sand at some point and this massive price increase crosses my personal line. I'll probably vote with my wallet and take my business elsewhere.

I tried calling again and did get into a 12-minute queue.

For me, with a 2-disc w/Blu-ray plus streaming plan, I'm currently paying $17. To get the equivalent on the new pricing will be $23 — a 35% price increase. Netflix already had a $1 price increase at the beginning of the year and started charging the $3 Blu-ray premium less than one year ago too. Taking all the…

I would not mind a free iPod as mine is the first generation Nano with 4GB. I have never replaced it as it still works just fine and meets my needs. It contains 90% audiobooks, 5% podcasts, and only 5% music. A Touch would be nice for it's Wi-Fi and ability to run apps, but it's also 4-5X larger.

In 1976, a NASA engineer spoke in one of my aerospace engineering classes about the space shuttle they were building. I clearly remember him saying that the Radio Shack TRS-80 computer was more powerful than each of the five computers on the shuttle.