I saw one of these maybe two days ago. They always made me kind of sad; GM's efforts were just so far away from the quality Mercedes was building in the 80s.

Not exactly an exhaustive article; the comments have better info. Charlotte (CLT) has a really first rate BBQ place. I think it's more of a city style, since it's not quite like the Carolina BBQ I've had in the rest of the state, but it's still damn good. I also had a ham and swiss sandwich at JFK a few years ago…

I have a 10" Griswold skillet and a 12" Wagner. The Griswold was definitely built and finished to a much higher quality. They both sat in the dirt in a covered shed at my parents house for a decade after my grandparents died. I dug them out a few years ago, cleaned them with a wire wheel and sanding sponge and then…

@anikdan1: Paragon products show up on [Giveawayoftheday.com] fairly regularly, and they are without a doubt the cream of the crop there. I've been using their disk partitioning software since 2002 or so and it's always done the right thing. GAotD definitely serves up some fly by night stuff, but this is not in that…

I'd much rather have the opposite of this- a tool to mount an arbitrary drive or UNC path as a folder. Things you can do with symlinks in unix but can't quite o in windows, even with win7 symlinks.

vote: Treeline

Here's a tip: if you have air conditioning and your wife is 8.5 months pregnant, turn on the air conditioning until she's happy. I swear it works, all 4500 watts of it.

I've been using a double edge razor since 1/2008. I only shave every few days, so the critical feature of this old school method (for me) is that it will cut through a multi-day beard without pulling a single hair. Electrics, Sensor, Mach 3 and Schick Tracers all pull a few (or many) hairs and it sucks.

Please excuse the thread necromancy...

Paint.NET will do HDR with a few free plugins. Here's a [url=[forums.somethingawful.com]]tutorial[/url].

@ovirto: I got a 404 with that link after logging in. Looks like it's been pulled.

I picked up a Toro leaf blower that a neighbor around the corner left on the curb. Sure enough it didn't power up. I found that a motor brush tension spring was broken. After a few different tries, I found a spring in my wall of tiny drawers that applied the correct pressure and could be glued in place.

With the Windows Live Photo Gallery app you can upload something like 100mb at a time, maybe more. I don't know where this 5 file limit came from. I uploaded a ton of photos via WLPG a few days ago. Of course WLPG will also upload to flickr...

@DallasElephunk:

I have confirmed that the DVD packaged with issue 23 of "Windows Vista Magazine" contains version 5 of ConceptDraw MindMap.

I have access to several of these magazines at my company's library. I'll see if any of these have the required CD.

Also- this tool (EASEUS Partition Manager Professional, I'm not talking about gparted any more...) doesn't support dynamic disks.

@rubbsdecvik- I've heard people sing the praises of gparted for a long time, but never had occasion to use it until recently. I was very impressed with its ease of use, until the majority of the operations I attempted, simply failed to succeed. I know enough to be able to fight my way through, and did get what I…

I was just thinking of this yeasterday. Adding the excellent comments on top of that (the lockworkstation thing is a great idea) makes this possibly the best Lifehacker thread I've seen yet.

I've been using ToDoList for about a month now. It's the first app of its kind that I've managed to stick with for longer than about an hour. I really like the ease that tasks can be demoted or promoted and otherwise moved around the hierarchy. I also like the checkin/checkout and autoreloading features. I keep my…