America isn't 'stuck with the cash culture' - they love their credit cards. The more the better, because you can buybuybuy, and if you've maxed out 5 cards, you just get another 5. I dare say if this country had more of a cash culture, personal debt would not be at the staggering magnitude at which it is!

There are no re-arrangements. These are new features of the world!

It's all those manicured dark green lawns that swallow the light.

...and here's the perfect antithesis to that.

Good thinking! I assume that expressions like 'newly renovated' rub you the wrong way, too.

we don't have gold stars any longer - THAT'S WHY we complain...

Old technique - the ancient Greeks actually used mortar made like this for their stone buildings.

Interesting, very interesting..., but they won't fool me...

YOU might have a nice spy drone, but I have a vierling in by backyard...

That Impala song is kind of catchy, but - isn't that pretty much the style that was already present on the Sgt. Pepper album, or the White Album? In other words, it's not really innovative, I dare say.

Just imagine, in ten years' time we'll look back like this at Google, Facebook, Pandora, etc.

... but he's still driving only a Mondeo...

You mean there are more seats behind first class? Oh - I must have failed to notice this while sipping my welcome champagne.

try Best Buy, for example.

Can those headphones reproduce something along 30kHz for that dog's ears? That would justify them.

This increasing trend for tracking really pisses me off, and I think more people should resists this. Nearly every store now wants to scan in your driver's license when you return merchandise. No - this is my id, and you can look at it to make sure that I am the person, but that's it. Usually, managers back down when…

What I think is important in this context is that 1) often these fees/strings are not being made explicit a priori, and 2) reps are often badly trained and don't know their ass from their elbow, and give you the wrong information. And in the end, it's always the consumer that gets the thin end of the wedge, because he…

I knew a guy down in Brisbane/AU who swore by the old VW vanagons (those with the rear engine / drivetrain), which have an incredibly stiff chassis. He'd throw in a stronger engine, reduce the gear ratio for the 1st gear a bit, put on a 10" lift kit, and big Goodrich mud diggers. Granted - they're not for…

Pure genius! What if you combined this with the most useless machine ever?

Office - schmoffice. I want WordPerfect on the iPad.