I've tried this but the fact that if you keep an item unread in Reader it will automatically become read after 1 month wound me up (I know I can just use stars, but unread items not showing up as such began to grate).

If you have a sheet on the bed underneath you, and just a duvet (which I think you call a comforter in the US) on top of you, it takes literally a second to just respread the duvet in the morning.

We used to do this all the time in Sri Lanka when I grew up, with tea rather than coffee (or at least my mum did). It's bloody hard to do it without spilling tea everywhere though. Takes practice.

I don't tend to pay for things but I do pay £10 per month for Spotify, just because it is fantastic and well worth the money considering I've not downloaded a single mp3 (legallyl or otherwise) since Spotify was released.

By far the best tool for this I've used (for SMS anyway) is SMSbackup on Android, which just automagically puts all your SMSs onto your gmail account for easy access searchable goodness. And keeps them for posterity.

@gawyn210: Probably being stupid here, but why do you need to actually replace the program? Surely if you have just set N++ as the default program for .txt and other file extensions then it's not a problem that notepad is still hanging around.

Surely this would leave you with white lines where the scratches to the paintwork were?

@SLeepdepD: Wow, in all the time I've been using Word I had NO idea it could be used like that.

@Mickets: This is a lovely little program. It's a keeper.

Revolutionary. Despite the waffle there is absolutely no difference between a "best by" and a "deadline" in this context.

Lifehacker really should hold off on these articles.

@tasteskindasalty: For guys trying to pick up women in gale force rainstorms this umbrella would really be the least of their problems.

@bashobuddha: I personally thought that was a deliberate ploy. Again the initial challenge that I wouldn't finish the article grabbed me. I would have skim-read it normally, and I would have clicked on the links and surfed out. The only reason I didn't is because of the challenge.

Surely the appropriate comparison is hours spent watching TV versus hours spent casually surfing (including casually surfing wikipedia!).

@pixelsnader: This is overly simplistic. There are all kinds of different shows, and a lot of the documentary and current affairs programmes are very educational. I contribute to wikipedia, and TV allows people access to information that eventually ends up on Wikipedia, or otherwise contributing. I have learnt an…

@mikestopcontinues: I'm a neuroscientist. NLP is nonsense, and this I can tell you is not evidence-based.

@paddirn: I was recently working with a couple of Portuguese women in London.

@Mr. Met's Morphine: Yeah, I knew it couldn't possibly be, but I always thought the refrain in The Killers Mr Brightside was Paella rather than as I later worked out "I never", even though I know what it is now I still sing it as Paella.

@jackburnt: I've been doing this all the time since medschool. This really should be common knowledge.

I was into my late 20s before I realised that the reason I kept cutting myself shaving was just because I was shaving against the grain...