If you had read the directions on the web site, you would have seen a warning about the toolbar installations.

Oooooo.... and I just bought bacon today, too. Thanks for posting this!

Now, if only there were more than one movie a year that's worth watching in a theater instead of waiting for the DVD.

Forget airports, all a terrorist needs to do is find a scientist willing to create a blight that kills off hybrid corn. Drive down a few dirt roads, let that stuff fly out the window, and there goes the American economy. We depend so much on corn it's unreal.

American food is full of all kinds of artificial ingredients. I have a theory, which unfortunately I can't prove, that our bodies do not see these things as "food" and react badly to them. I think that more than anything else is why Americans are so fat and so sick.

Any time we start thinking we know better than Mother Nature, we're screwed.

More expensive than a staple remover, but designed to do that specific job: Split ring pliers.

The problem is that there are dipwads out there who like nothing better than grabbing the entire contents of a seat-cover container and stuffing it into the john. When I worked at a large urban public library the administration had to quit having the seat-cover dispensers stocked because the toilets were overflowing…

You know that flap that hangs down when you open up the oval in the middle? Let that drape down into the water from the front. Cover won't move after that, and it has the added bonus that when you flush, the cover will almost always be sucked right off the seat and down the drain.

Love Gelaskins, especially their "Underworld" line of skins. Got one on my ancient Powerbook G4 and one on my iPod Touch.

I don't have a super whizbang expensive phone to begin with, which means its own case is plenty sturdy enough. I even peeled off the screen protector because it was becoming a fingerprint magnet.

Applying alcohol to a sore throat? It'll just be more sore after you quit screaming.

Without instant messaging I wouldn't know what my kids were up to. :)

Huh. Maybe that's why CompuServe called their mail system EasyPlex. Who else would be interested in trademarking that?

Actually, if someone's got their hands on you and you can still use yours, and you can get your small knife open with one hand, you can do some serious damage if the knife is good and sharp. Like slice open the carotid artery beneath the ear.

I handed over my driver's license for something yesterday and for the first time realized that the shirt in the photo (taken ten years ago) was the same shirt I was wearing at the time.

See, I told you that already being old was better, but did you kiddies listen?

Hmm. I get two buttons. One says "no thanks" and the other one says "turn web history on." I guess I made a smart move at some point without realizing it.

Sometimes no matter what kind of excellent documentation and proof you can supply, the boss has kissed up so long and so diligently that you might as well just be whistling Dixie.

As I said in my recent review of Windows 8 Head Start (shameless plug), I think the Win8 interface looks like a bad marriage between Gordon Ramsay's restaurant ordering system and a Las Vegas blackjack table.