Hooray! Something else other than switching between "Silver" or "Olive Green" as I've been doing for the past 8 years. This is a Change I Can Believe In.

Patience. Lots of patience. Especially for deep sky stuff with a telescope. I'm just getting into astronomy, and for all beginners looking to get into astrophotography, the main piece of advice I've heard is "DON'T!" The really good guys have tens-of-thousands of dollar setups, and dedicate entire nights with…

@nwaustin: Also, technically, Polaris isn't a star at all. Its made up of a three stars known as a trinary system. Woo hoo, science!

Ummm... he got everything correct except Jupiter. Whereas the stars are fixed, Jupiter is a planet and itself orbits our sun, it moves independently (though slowly) through the night sky and isn't always in Orion. In fact, right now its on the opposite end of the sky in the constellation Sagittarius. If, over the past…

Speaking of local voting resources, does anyone know where I can find out all of the items that are going to be on my ballot? I hate going in to vote on Nov. 4th, only knowing who I'm voting for president, and ending up "guessing" on all the other offices and referendums that I've never heard of. The website for Illino…

@KStrike155: You wait for the whole thing to load then type your street address in the box on the left, then it gives you links to your local voting resources.

A Jonah Hill only version would've been far funnier and far less... oh, whatstheword... long.

@natenovs: Because you don't have to pay the down payment, taxes, maintenance and (in some cases) utilities. Then, when you want to move, you don't have to worry about selling it.

@jeevzycreezy: There was a previous Lifehacker article aptly named What Do You Want to Do With Your Life? Ebook Helps You Answer That Question. I downloaded the Ebook, which is gigantic, and the author recommends printing it out and going through it like a workbook.

@LastVigilante: Its not easy for a piece of software got a "wow" out of me.

I've always wondered why something like this isn't bundled in with Picasa, and the Canon software that came with my camera stitch photos like this is pretty clunky and inaccurate, so I'm looking forward to giving this a try.

I forwarded this article to my friends. How ironic.

I've got a vacation coming up and I've got a running total of about 5 rental cars reserved for that week. Since they don't require credit card to reserve a car, I just keep checking for the lowest price (which keep getting lower as the date approaches, presumably because they have excess inventory) and whenever a…

I really got into astronomy this summer. I joined the local astronomy club and have been hanging out at the observatories with other nerdular astronomy geeks every chance I get. I also bought a giant 8" Dobsonian telescope, so every time I take it out I solidify my nerdtastic reputation with the neighbors.

Yeah, I'm with the others wondering if an actual RESTORE is possible using this. My girlfriend's laptop's hard drive just Bought-The-Farm, and she conveniently cannot find the original Dell restore disc (there is a restore partition, but that does me a whole lot of bupkis if I'm replacing the whole HDD), so I'm in for…

@Captain Bringdown: I've got the Intel E8500 (Penryn) and I've read a few things about wonky temperature readings in different software with that CPU, but its surprised me that both of these items are from the same developer and giving different results.

I'll get to figuring out what I want to do with my life only after I can figure out why clicking on the PDF link keeps crashing my Firefox 3.0.1 every time. Alt+Click to direct download now worked, so I'm guessing I can blame Acrobat... or maybe it is one of my Firefox extensions! Gahh!

@dashifen: Amen brother! Illinois both sucks and blows. This is why I'm still living at home rent-free, because I can't choose between living in a "shady" apartment complex or going to the poor house living at a newer, expensive complex. Sure, its not too appealing to the lay-deez, but living at home has been good for…

This might not be the right place to ask this, but I'm getting conflicting data coming from PC Wizard vs HWMonitor (both from CPUID). HWMonitor is reporting my CPU temps to be 10-degrees C hotter than PC Wizard. Wierd.

Ohmigod! Yet another reason for me to believe Lifehacker is clairvoyant! I just built my first PC from scratch, and have been looking for a stress test to make sure I'm firing on all cylinders. I've done all the 3DMark-esque benchmarks, but I was really looking for a stability stress test. Though, I think I'm going to…