Agreed. I think the Giz editors need to read their mission/charter once a month to ensure they are delivering relevant articles. It it simplistic form, if the main topic is not powered by electricity, publication on this particular Gawker site should be reconsidered. That is overly simplistic, but it you get my…

I'm pretty much happy with my 4-year old Sony Ericsson flip phone. It cost a lot less to buy and my wallet is not an extra $300-400 light every year. I have had employer-provided smartphones in the past, including a Palm Treo 650 and a few Blackberrys and liked the convenience. Sure I'd like to own a smartphone but…

A thinner wallet.

$10 would be $35.29 in 2012 dollars, which is one heckuva bargain. If Fleetwood Mac still toured, tickets would be north of $100 for sure.

I miss the days when I saw The Doobie Brothers with a $6 lawn seat and Fleetwood Mac for $10 lawn seats at the Saratoga (New York) Performing Arts Center (SPAC). Now the damned fees are about the same amounts!

Since TicketMaster has long term exclusive contracts with venues, the band probably did not have the option of using a different ticket sales service. While their method may be awkward, it is likely the only way they could accomplish their goal of keeping fans from having to pay extra tribute to TicketMaster.

What about Polecat?

Well, I use Outlook as a GMail client so I'm pretty sure the email does reside on my desktop before it flies through the Internets tubes.

I truly hope none of these teachers get into trouble for this. Locally, a teacher who has a serious photography hobby posted photos of their students on a secure site accessible by only the students and their parents. Now some dick parents are pissed-off and are making accusations suggesting they may be a pedophile.…

I want to know how many professional painters use a $30 spray rig.

Is a cut of beef really patentable? Did someone in the past say, "Hey! If we don't cut that slab 'O beef into a tenderloin and a strip steak, we can patent it and call it a porterhouse!"? Did they then say, "That will be $2 royalty for wielding your knife this way instead of that way."?

I'm on only my 3rd one in 13 years. They are made of aluminized steel, which makes them look great when new but the intense heat burns-off the aluminum pretty quickly. My first one lasted about six years before finally burning and rusting out the wireframe in the bottom. It was used and stored under cover. Do not…

In my house, none of the n-second rules apply if my dogs get to it first — and they hang out in the kitchen and at my feet constantly, especially my Golden Retriever.

Wow, Wikipedia has already been updated to suggest this attack was a copycat.

Kodak has a long history with the Federal Government, including work on the Manhattan Project.

For starters, I have little doubt you had to be in their former Federal Systems Division (FSD) to get close. I went through a lengthy and rigorous security screening to be part of FSD at Kodak. After that, only a limited number of FSD employees would have access and know how to use the material for testing other…

Hmm, I was in the basement of that building a couple times. It is an odd feeling to know I was within no more than a couple hundred feet of this material.

That wasn't a teat you were squeezing and pulling and I ain't no cow! Come back! I love you!

I had (actually have) a Mitsubishi VHS VCR with commercial skip. After recording, it would rewind and analyze the recording for telltale signs of commercials (brief black scenes) and mark them. When played-back, commercials were automatically skipped. Accuracy was very high but sometimes the X-Files messe it up.

Hmm, interesting and a point I had not considered for beer. That said, some of the 11.2 oz. bottles I have seen are not imports but domestic microbrews which are very unlikely to be exported.