My library rents ebooks, but they're not compatible with Kindle and I'm not ready to commit to another eReader yet.

Yeah, we have a loan program, which is great and I use often.

To all who are saying "Just go to your local library," I agree.

What's the best self-publishing company?

It's because baking soda is mildly abrasive.

I've been able to get tea and coffee stains out of mugs by filling them with warm water and a couple tablespoons of white vinegar and letting them sit for 10 minutes. The stains just wipe away after that.

I get the same thing. All of the pages look broken to me.

What I do is get a new bar while the old one is still about 1/8" thick and use the edge of the old bar to make grooves in the new one. I usually do it in the shower after the new bar softens up a little, but you have to keep the water off the old bar or it will get mushy. It's a highly scientific process.

Fair enough. The problem is that every time I disabled it in my browser, it came back with a vengeance during the upgrade process. I've never had a program on my computer fail because Java isn't installed.

I uninstalled Java six months ago and haven't looked back. It's such a bloated, terrible, annoying piece of software and I rarely come across a web site that doesn't work because I don't have it installed. And if I do, I just find an alternative site that isn't living in the 90s.

Wutg? Should that be "with"?

I've never been a big smoker (a cigarette or cigar once a year or so), but I've always wanted to try a pipe. Any recommendations for where/how to start?

Thanks for this! I've often wondered how a headbutt makes any sense because, in the movies, it often looks like people hit forehead to forehead. Ouch! But hitting head-to-nose makes a whole lot more sense.

You don't spray the newspaper with vinegar to remove odors—according to the article, you used crumpled newspaper to absorb odors and then, before throwing it out, spray it with vinegar to clean windows.

Can someone explain how newspaper absorbs odors?

Never knew this. Thanks!

Link should be [consults.blogs.nytimes.com]

Just don't lick the blade.

When plunging your toilet, THIS IS KEY: Press the plunger into the hole until it forms a good seal and then jerk the plunger UP a few times while still maintaining that seal.

Hell to the no. When I was a teenager, I made a lot of embarrassing posts on newsgroups under my real name. I'm not the only person in the world with this name, but it's not exactly common either. So yeah, that pretty much dissuaded me from ever using my real name online again.