Before ‘Pipes’ was ‘YPipes’, it was more affectionately (and GUI-friendly) known as Y-Customizable-Home-Page’ (which they killed in 2007-8, about the time that ‘Pipes’ came out. The week they killed the GUI-customizable home page deal, was the same week I went to PROTOPAGE. Free login, then set up your desired feeds…

A hammer can also be used to drive a screw, but it is not designed to, nor is the ideal tool to do this with. There’s a reason you have bandsaws, lathes, routers (and thus, router tables), and various other tools to create round cuts. A table saw is not designed to do this, and there is a specific reason that NO…

Actually, this statement is false. Rooms are static, and depending on the structure, often act as heat collectors. If you have ever went into a barn, shed or simply an ‘unopened house’ that did not have air conditioning and where the windows were closed, you have seen this effect as a higher ambient temperature…

Actually, while most traffic laws are STATE laws (not federal), which implies that you’d have to check each state to validate ‘it’s not illegal’ (and obivously, some was driven enough, pardon the pun, to check about driving barefoot in each state), you CAN be cited for ‘other’ dangers (such as ‘reckless driving’,…

Actually, not only does America not have ‘an official language’, but other nations, like Canada, don’t speak ‘Canadian’, they speak both ENglish and FRench. Technically, since French is defined as ‘Canada’s Official Language’, then English would be their secondary. As Mexico doesn’t truly speak ‘Spanish’ to start…

Thorin, great idea. In reality, responsibly knowing how a cylinder lock works, and being able to pick one, is a great idea for a solid survival skill. Everyone should understand, ‘locks only keep honest people honest, anyhow’.

The next time you intend to 'fake it till you make it', just remember one thing - how would you feel if your doctor or lawyer did this to you?

3 Knives, a sharpie and zip ties, complete with iTunes. Seriously, I saw this in the movie SAW.

Having actually LIVED in 5 of those dark-green states (as in owned-a-house, or rented an apartment, held a job, etc.) versus having grown up in a gray-state, and having friends and family in very-light-green states, I find this 'survey' HARD-skewed to both urban and liberal concepts. If you actually looked at the…

In 1995, I first used (and continued using) Netscape as a browser. It grew worse and worse until 1-minute open-times caused me to go to IE, around 2000. By 2004, IE was taking close to 1-minute to cease 'opening' on first-start, and I moved to the new 'Google Chrome' browser around that time. This went on until around…

My wife just spent 5-weeks out of work, Family Medical Leave, 4 rounds of antibiotics and is only scheduled to go back to work next week. Come to find out, or doctor is now out 'indefinitely' for apparently the same thing. Don't say never, just because you haven't had such a thing YET. (same thing had me down over…

Funny, I asked my Doctor about this very thing a few years back, and she informed me quite clearly that she not only knew the English language, but if she wanted me on 'couch rest' she would have obviously have stated such. I like my Doc, she not only tells it like it is, and is very accurate with her diagnoses, but…

Try the MotoRokr S305 for bluetooth connectivity, you can hear everything in good stereo sound, while also hearing almost everything around you at equal volumes. Rechargeable headsets, hold about a 4-hour continuous listening charge at average volumes. I have two sets that have both lasted YEARS, still hold a good…

What a joke. Ok, let's look at this another way. I bought a Dell Desktop PC on a famous online 'buy-it-used' website for $75. New I5 chip, 4-GB RAM, 1-TB harddrive (and old Win7 Retail Disk I had) and voila - a $300 PC that not only is a PC, but a media center, a central home server (with 3 2-TB extra USB drives), a…

12 hours for a carmelized onion? OUCH! You can carmelize an onion from bulb-to-pot in less than an hour if you have a cast iron skillet. 12-hours? OMG, that's like 'at starvation speed' in cooking terms.

Actually, as many have said about the North (New England in particular), kids learn early, unless it was a Nor Easter that continued to snow until 7AM, AND there is at LEAST 12-inches on the ground, AND the plows aren't running yet because they are waiting for the snowfall to let-up, you ARE GOING to school this…

As a former Marine, I can tell you that the BEST (easiest) rope scaling method is the 'brake-wrap' method. Take your right foot (strongest leg), and wrap that leg ONE TURN through the scaling rope. Let the belay-end rest over top of the right foot (strongest foot) metatarsal region. Now, STEP on that rope HARD with…

Everyone is mentioning rental limits, high deposits, etc. Have you ever thought of joining any of the car rental clubs' membership services? Before retiring, I had gold memberships with Hertz, Enterprise and Avis. All memberships kept my card information on file, I could reserve, walk up and take off without counter…

SEALS, smeals; they still can't get the 45-angle on the FOOT FOLD right!

Interesting, in the fact that 'coil whine' (a previously tertiary consideration) is now a primary one, while you have an article and all these comments, and not a single one addresses the historic cause of most whine - failing harddrive bearings. When you hear whine under demand, RUN to the electronics store and buy a…