I hate mayonnaise. Can I substitute Miracle Whip?

This is only true for Dishwashing/Washing Up Liquid IN THE SINK.

"Agitation" is about as useless as waving a Polaroid picture to make it develop faster. The difference in convection transfer might be a few minutes. If that's enough time to be important to you, throw it in the microwave.

There's nothing wrong with occasionally putting your hand in your pocket, just don't do both or leave them there. Also - and this is REALLY important, take all the change out of your pockets! Everyone can hear you fingering the coins in your pocket, even if you don't hear it yourself.

You think 70K people out of work and flying on UNINSPECTED planes is a win-win? Ignorance is not a substitute for wit,

I found that most "audiophiles" tend to focus on calling themselves audiophiles, and discussing why everyone else is NOT an audiophile.

Some Sennheiser models, especially their "Sport" series, also come with an extension, plus this has a right-angle connector.

So I guess that wasn't the Brazil women who played the USA the other day? You know, the group of women who crumpled to the pitch with seemingly catastrophic injuries, only to heal faster than a professional wrestler by the next whistle? They were grabbing their ankles more often than Charlie Sheen's goddesses. If…

This is Compound Stupidity. The wingnuts are trying to hijack a bookkeeping procedure for their political advantage, and the criminal element are hijacking the batshit wingnuts to expand their pool of IDs to steal. There's no justification for issuing a "Birth Certificate" if no one is born. Period. You can bet…

That's not reliable. Clarkson's head is solid rock.

Can you add one criterion to this? ONLY nominate INSURED/FDIC accounts! The rest are just sucker bets.

I've had to deal with this twice in my career. The first guy was a fat little dwarf who may have been created by Machiavelli. He used to tell us to withhold important information not specifically requested from certain people he didn't like. The day after the 4 Veeps immediately superior to him told me (as a group)…

This may sound weird, but leave your machine running overnight, occasionally. I honestly don't know if that's still true for Snow Leopard versions, but for older PowerPC compatible OS X it was. As an Apple guy explained to me, it's a UNIX-based OS designed around systems that used to run 24 hours a day, so they had…

I'll give you the points, er, point. Amex REALLY needs to revise theirs. But my experience has been that most of the VISA and MasterCards have crappy service. The phone centers in the US may have better flexibility to help, but they are also (generally) less cooperative and surlier. And when it gets down to it,…

EVERY major retailer takes AMEX, and MasterCard is getting hammered for all the hidden "extra charges" they stick retailers. Plus, you simply can't beat the customer service from American Express. When my iPod's hard drive died they didn't bother having it fixed. They found the replacement model (more expensive) and…

What is this? Best tips of 1954?

They now call it Rescue Tape or generic silicone tape instead of stop-leak tape (which was its great claim to fame) because it isn't that great at stopping leaks. It slows them (for a while), but it doesn't seal them.

AMEX is usually the best for any electronics purchase, because it automatically doubles your warranty. Instead of paying a couple hundred bucks for the extended warranty, just use American Express. That's worth a lot more than any cash back or points.

When I buy a new car, I use a simple strategy. I decide what car I want, find multiple dealers, and then tell them to quote me their best price. Not their starting price, not their monthly payment, not any deals they're pushing. Here's the car: here's the price. I also tell them that I'm going to be talking to…

I hate the people who sit at the stop bar waiting to turn left. PULL INTO THE INTERSECTION!! That's the point of the yellow light - it means the oncoming traffic has to yield to anyone already in the intersection (i.e. you, pinhead!) (not you KamWrex) But No-o-o-o, they just sit there. When the light changes back to…