@Stephen Rice: YES! Tubes could totally work! (btw, you're smart . . . are you a US Senator?) We could lubricate them with bacon grease and call the whole thing the baconet! :-)

@CaptainJack: agreed. Shark = Jumped. Thanks for the illustration :)

@BPL5683: @Homerjay has ABSA Fever: LOL!

@SquareWheel: I think the idea here is when sharing a bunch of photos with a bunch of people. Many email users still can't get a 10+ MB email attachment, so most people toss the photos in a gallery. This is just a simpler way of doing a gallery.

Wonder Woman's been Lifehacker'ed.

So, Facebook wants to me run my Gmail through them? What the hell...Facebook has an excellent privacy record so why not give them access to every email I send and receieve. No. Chance. In. Hell.

@Platypus Man: exactly. Hundreds of thousands of college kids are going to start using this and when employers start getting resumes from hot_ass_jenny@facebook.com they're going to laugh and delete them immediately.

You know what would make this AWESOME? If some day there's actually a place where you could exchange files with strangers without even plugging something into your computer! It could be just as random and anonymous, but it'd be an INTERconnected NETwork of machines with which you could exchange files. Now I just…

@Stephen Rice: Per the comment below, I think it's actually more than just careless skimming. :-) And this wasn't advice *from my lawyer* which I'd read carefully. It's just an article, which most people will glance at before deciding to read it in full.

Pet Peeve: When articles such as this one are written as dispelling "myths" but then list the "myths" as unlabeled, boldprint statements. If you're printing something BECAUSE it's untrue, label it as MYTH: LIE: WRONG: or something like that.

@trickycoolj: Is it controlled by a wall switch? Cause they make these awesome push button wall switch replacements that turn a load on for 5/10/30 minutes, then turn off automatically. There's another version that's 10/30/60 minutes.

@Lovick: Or unless you're not going out. I think the beauty of this idea is that someone would be unlikely to leave the house or go to bed without noticing they're wearing a rubber band on their wrist. But not everyone sleeps with their cell phone. :-)

@magista: Maybe I've been wrong all these years, but isn't a burner the same as a stove? I always think of the stove/burners as being on top, and the oven being the inside, no?

@hpiguy: Oh to have such a superior intellect. Seriously, you're claiming that you use no reminders in your life AND that you've never forgotten anything? Do you have a calendar? Why not just use your brain to remember simple things like that?

@Mike Bartlett: Sorry, I should have been more clear. I know what a bonnet is in the UK, I just didn't know whether "under the bonnet" was an idiom in the UK. For example, what we cal gas you call petrol. There's an idiomatic US expression to "hit the gas" which means to accelerate or drive faster. I don't know…

@Mike Bartlett: That's pretty funny! Can any of our UK friends tell me if "under the bonnet" is a common idiomatic expression in the UK? For those abroad, in the US "under the hood" is an idiom for seeing the inner workings of something (as in, lifting the hood of the car and checking out the engine).

@GeicoCaveman: I never said buying votes was currently impossible, but as long as the voting booth is private, the person doing the buying is relying on my promise (as a criminal and to a criminal) to vote a certain way. But if he gets to watch me vote on his computer, it's a bargain and a sure deal.

@Tenacious_ADG: The nice thing about plane exits is you'll notice they always move in slightly before turning out. That means anyone trying to open one while the plane is pressurized would need to be about 100 times stronger than the strongest human (yup, making up the numbers) to open it. They'd be pulling against…

@GeicoCaveman: Per my rationale below, as much as I appreciate doing those other things online, I hope that we don't ever get to a point of online voting. Do you think that losing the secrecy of the voting booth could lead to coercion? Considering how much people spend campaigning, and how close some elections are,…

@teh1andonlym0: To me the biggest issue with internet voting is coercion. I believe an open-source platform could be made secure, but it still can't prevent someone from standing over your shoulder and requiring you to cast your ballot a certain way. The key strength of our voting booth is its privacy. Once you're…