@Eric Clausing: When you're paying $$$$ per month for a stack of dedicated servers, I promise you have control. I'm not talking about using your ISP's email account here.

@Phoshi: A more pertinent question should be, "Why should I inherently trust a giant corporation like Google with my email?"

@Phoshi: It's not the client or the browser that gives me concern. It's the server. I trust my dedicated servers much more than a third outside party like Goog.

@Solevator: Some of us prefer to hang on to our security and configure our own email as we see fit on our own servers using our own domains in a 100% controlled environment.

Tried Thunderbird a while back and hated it. Sticking with Apple Mail.

@Webran61: Gears was abandoned by Goog like a red-headed stepchild. Doubt it'll be around for long.

Doesn't work here for me.

@tommertron: You're still watching Seinfeld? Dude... it's been ten years since that shit went off the air.

Using social networking sites like Facebook in the first place is a recipe for ID theft. Why put unnecessary information about yourself on the freaking Internet?

@Apeiron242: That's what the eraser is for.

@mike_311: No no, you gotta discreetly hang about ten pine car fresheners deep inside it. Gives it that fresh Christmasy car smell.

Most walls are textured though, at least somewhat. Does this only work on flat, smooth walls, or textured walls too? I can't see how a vinyl graphic would lay properly over a texture. (I used to own a vinyl graphics sign shop so I already know the answer.)

I turned a wine refrigerator into a pedestal for a fax machine.

@dgwood12: Flatbed scanner, VueScan on Mac, and lots & lots of your personal time.

What do you mean by "combine images"? Lay one over the top of the other? Glue them side by side? Package them in a zip archive?

@TheFu: True, but portability wasn't in the criteria of the article, unless I missed it.

We used pantyhose in Iraq stretched over the top of Humvee air cleaners to keep the sand out of the engines.

6'x4' whiteboard bolted to the wall.

The last thing I ever want to do is bring my laptop to the sofa with me. My sofa is my sanctuary. No work allowed, ever!

12' fake tree purchased at Lowes AFTER Christmas: $10 dollars.