Forgetting someone's name isn't embarrassing at all, as long as you admit it in the first few minutes next time you meet.

"In sum,..."

Please Lifehacker, we understand that this is a US site but you also have a large international following. If it's a US only offer can't you say this in the main text?

Some of this advice is dependent on what you are writing and you should always bear in mind who the audience is and the publisher's house style. Eg. if writing a novel you probably should use lots of adverbs but when writing a research paper you should use very few. But I do disagree with the advice on cutting…

... but if you're asked to kill for no money at all you'd do it, presumably because you'll get the publicity you're craving

you're so right. It's totally my fault. I should have been born 80 years earlier and strived as hard as I could to convince the French government not to force unrealistic war reparations on the Germans in the 1920's....

This is very very lame

I heard a radio feature a couple of years ago saying that this was a particular problem in the US but was starting to affect Europe as well. Can anyone up date us all on the worldwide proliferation of this problem?

If you're considering cost then shouldn't you also consider the energy cost as well. I agree that if you want to simmer something for a long time on a very low heat then a fairly thick pan is worth it, but for heating things up (boiling veg, baked beans and soup) then the energy cost difference could easily be more…

Classic LifeHacker. You can make something you can buy at a DIY shop or car parts shop, using stuff that you're not going to have just lying around the home and will be harder to source than the thing you're trying to make anyway.

And for those of us not in the US..... whatever we normally do on a November Thursday

yes

logic fail: they are proposing the converse

> Nothing's worse than coming home from a long flight to find your shampoo all over everything in your bag.