I have ignored those banners so hard that right up until this article I had no idea what they were about.

I love electronic mapping for finding places around town I've never been, but I've never found a need for GPS navigation. And for real traveling, I'd feel uncomfortable without a paper map... sure, it's faster and more reliable, but honestly it's probably just because that's what I've used my whole life.

Ah yes, seems like only yesterday cell phone ownership was lazy movie shorthand for "soulless yuppie."

I really enjoy it when science mags have a slow mail month, and decide to publish and wreck a few crackpot letters to the editor.

@yodablues: The thing is, I'm trying to use an old Windows 2000 laptop as a media PC. Which is futile, and my own damn fault, and I actually have a copy of Win XP that's just gathering dust. But just on the off chance that there's a way to skip the downloader, or even to get .Net 3.5 running on Win 2k and hack it…

I'd use Amazon if they didn't require the use of their downloader for purchases of whole albums. Anyone know a way around this?

@michaelwinters: I'm so glad to see you made an exemption for complaining about complaining.

@crosis101: I remember reading about how holographic storage was right around the corner in the early 90's. Optical discs were juuust about obsolete. Some great advance seems to pop its head up a couple of times a decade, but it's weird that it hasn't been either realized or abandoned yet.

@Nitesh2: Ugh, yeah, the memory thing kills me. I tried Opera recently and didn't really care for the feel of it, but maybe I should give it another chance.

Oh man, I am totally picking up some casters next time I'm at the hardware store. Wheels! Why didn't I think of that?

These leaks are keeping me strong in the face of Best Buy's $0 Incredible. Hate old phone... but must... wait...

I find oft-maligned Yahoo mail's spam filtering to be accurate and effective enough that I simply don't need to bother with obfuscation or junk addresses.

I know snark is the natural reaction to something that seems so simple and costs so much, but it looks like a really thoughtful design to me.* The disc brake is a nice touch. And maybe I lived in bike-worshiping Boulder, CO for too long, but when you get used to looking at the far extremes of maximized strength and…

I really wanted a Nexus S if I could get it for free and unlocked, but I totally misjudged what they were looking for in a haiku. I'll pick up something with dual cores and a physical qwerty sometime in the next couple of months, I'm sure.

After reading that headline, I just spent a solid 10 seconds wondering how Google could possibly refresh my worn out lenses through the internet.

I liked when they fMRI'd brain activity in a dead salmon.

Between the Firefox 4 beta and the Flash beta, I've lately had the odd sensation of my 700MHz P3 laptop becoming less outdated every day. Fullscreen Hulu on a 9 year old pc? Uh, okay. Maybe I should see how Chrome runs, too.

Ghetto iLife, talkin' 'bout ghetto iLife.

Aw, look how sad they made poor Angel!

@Slinkytech: The math would certainly be easier, but switching to metric isn't as simple as just deciding to use a different tape measure.