Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If there are obvious benefits, all they need to do is a double blind study with a control group, and they can likely prove this quite quickly. Since most of the advocates are like quacks, charlatans, fraudsters, medicine men, homeopaths and chiropractors, I have…

"Toxins." ALWAYS with the "toxins."

You know what I use to "detox"? My liver and my kidneys. You know what I don't use? Anything involved with the words "homeopathic" and "detox"

my general rule of thumb is that whenever i see the word 'toxin' (without a specific substance named) used in an article, credibility decreases by half.

I would like to see oil pulling go up against a anti-bacterial mouthwash. Science, anyone?

"Helps get rid of acne/ eczema/ psoriasis/ & other skin care issues."

I'm inclined to call bullshit on at least some of this. Psoriasis is an immune disorder, I highly doubt that swishing oil around your mouth can stop your immune system from getting up to shenanigans. But hey, what do I know? Also, if we're being…

Oil pulling is like faux-science bingo. Removes toxins? Check! Ancient [insert non-white people] practice? Check! All over my Pinterest? BINGO!

Vote: VLC

Alton Brown's recipe is also good, and it's pantry-friendly.

Alton Brown knows all: You can use a microwave.

Vote: Gimp

Here. I just fixed, like, 80% of the problems. :P

Xmarks is king! Saves in cloud, addon for all major browsers, different profiles(work, home, ...), syncs between different browsers as well as different machines, like work PC, laptop, tablets, and even mobile phones(at a cost $12 per year).

Something that if well i am aware of, i don't use it. For starters, up arrow let me edit last line (up-home sudo space would do the trick). But more important, i see what im really executing. no matter how much the page scrolled. Executing without actually seeing an rm with root permissions is risky ("rm -rf /…

Best podcast to learn about random things. Josh and Chuck are the hosts and they do a great job every time. The topics are always pretty interesting and they also manage to squeeze in some humor in each episode. This one is definitely a brain booster. Oh and the production quality is top-notch.

T-Mobile. Not much to say about them, they give you exactly the service they say they will for exactly the price they say they will. They have the infamous $30 unlimited data/text plan with 100 minutes, and several other prepaid tiers. They also have the upside of being the 4th biggest carrier in the US, which…

Get rid of bacon grease???! Sacrilege!

I used to love the After Dark screensavers.

BOINC, the engine behind Seti@Home, has a lot more projects with which you can use it. I personally use it for World Community Grid, which computes for various humanitarian causes, such as curing AIDS or providing clean water to developing nations.