A tree bench seems so useful. I just made fire with my leftover lumber. It wasn't as useful, but starting a fire seemed the obvious choice.

Thanks, this helps ease the pain a bit. Comments are still a little quirky, but this helps given it works on all the gawaker sites. Thanks for being proactive and posting this.

I uses a Webmin theme called Stress Free that incorporates Gears to cache theme elements. I just tested it out on Windows Vista x86 with the theme and I have experienced no issues so far.

Evernote felt very OneNote Lite to me. It seemed useful for somethings, but OneNote feels far more robust. I guess it depends on what feature one requires. I have to stick to OneNote.

@Johan Vandekerckhove: Same here

@thirdopticaltool: Does it need to look pretty for what it does? It's a cloning system with unicasting and multicasting support. It sounds to me like this sort of interface is fine for such an app. I certainly doesn't seem like this is focused towards a user who needs a pretty interface to feel good about life.

I just use a small drain snake. I had a one-time investment of $15 and it works every time.

@mfusion: I've use a terracotta pot over top a pizza stone in a wood bbq to act as a roaster. It worked reasonably well. I imagine it could work for a pizza in an oven.

Lifehacker readers may want to check out Part II of the story where he changes the technique to parbake the crust and incorporates a pizza stone: [thepauperedchef.com]

I love using my sourdough starter (aka culture). I have one growing in my kitchen right now. I recommend using unbleached organic flour since there's no preservatives to inhibit growth. I also used an apple to kick-start the culture when I first started bringing it to life. Most kitchens will produce starters that…

Thank you!

I like that this uses a sponge (a.k.a. a poolish). That's a really good baking technique for any type of bread, even pizza dough. [en.wikipedia.org]

Wow, thanks for the dog/cat option. I first saw this post and thought, nothing has replaced my alarm clock since I was thinking about gadgets only. However, I have a cat that wakes up at 6am every day with the sun and he really wants me to get up with him.

I really hate how the popup bubble covers the text I highlight. Sometimes I highlight text to focus my attention, yet this makes highlighting text only useful for search operations. I also agree with jasonbarone, it is cumbersome to use at times.

I feel like I'm too late to the party. OneNote and Evernote are not similar apps. At a core level, yes they both take notes. Evernote is more of an electronic notepad while OneNote is a much more organized source to act as a compendium of notes linking random thoughts and project notes together throughout office. …

I have a Sony Z750a with the Sony firmware (not the ATT firmware) installed. I've used my camera once to photograph damage after someone hit my car. That's the only time it's been useful. I regularly use the normal phone features, the calendar (I sync it with my Google calendar), Opera Mini, Gmail, Google Maps, and…

You need a tag of "Fraternity House Life Skills" for this sort of advice.

Wow, with this and the Windows 7 task bar, I won't need Rocket Dock anymore. I'm kind of excited for Windows 7. I just have to talk my employer into letting me upgrade from Vista.

Sriracha replaced ketchup for me. However, if you really love ketchup, like my wife, just mix the two together and you'll have an improved version of the condiment.

This seems useless to me and not really helpful in getting things done. Sure, if I have a crowded window I could overlap the notepad window over something else so that I could see the text of both windows and transcribe something, but the need for that seems very slim. Anywhere else, a light or complex background is…