@Marco: This post is old, but are you sure? Because I go very long stretches of time without checking my hotmail account, however I log in to msn daily, and I've never had my account deleted. I think all the people who use their hotmail account to chat and not send mail would be pretty pissed if they saw their…

When I read (fiction at least) I go much, much faster than I could read out loud. What's surprising me is the commenters saying they purposefully want to read slower. Personally, if I read out loud/accidentally stop paying attention and read words individually, "out loud in my head", I can't follow the story at all…

If you're allowed one, an oven is awesome, maybe even more so than a microwave: you can make pizza in it! Mmm pizza. (and cakes, and all types of meal really). Even more useful is a heating element (is that what they're called? the thing you put pans on ;) ). I'm so annoyed when I see my friends' dorm suites having…

I either say thanks (the one I voted) or my name depending on the nature of the email. If I'm writing a fairly formal email, or to someone I don't know, chances are I want something, so thanks make sense. To family and friends, just my name makes more sense than an actual closing phrase—and that's when I remember to…

@absentecho: I think the lifehacker team has a lot to do and not approving new comments has nothing to do with bad quality comments. We do want them to be keeping busy with writing interesting articles!

Aw, it's adorable... but not very useful as far as I'm concerned. My smaller pieces of paper either end up in a full size folder or get lost, because my storage (be it a drawer, a magazine organizer, etc) is made to hold a full size sheet of paper. If I made half folders, I'd have to dig around to find them, they…

Mashing the banana is a bad plan. I haven't done it, but I have read countless tales of people having to pick the banana bits out of their hair with a flea comb. If you want to try it, use baby food banana—it'll be processed so there are no tiny bits, unlike if you do it yourself.

I write mostly in cursive, and mine is fully legible, simply because I learned to write cursive before um...the other kind :P, and I actually had to do it for classwork, write pages of letters. This was in france, until say, maybe 3rd grade. (I'm way past 1980—1989 in fact)

@Jason: I was wondering the exact same thing! If you're not in it for the speed, lack of work, or taste, why? The only thing left is cost, but I doubt buying the ingredients to make it from scratch is more expensive...

Why is that picture so perfect, and then there's huge folds in the carpet? I am just not understanding it one bit. o.O "artistic" messiness?

@VestedFox: Mine are speedy enough that I don't mind the delay, and so far haven't happened so often as to bother me, but then again I just chat for fun, nothing important that would make me annoyed at losing a minute.

@Robotic Bilbo Bagins has no use for fleshy ones: I used to not get much music at all when I was "little" — I would maybe get one or two cds a year at *most*. And you know, I love all of my music from back then! I think listening to the same song multiple times because I had nothing else made me like them, whereas…

@KerryKaboo: I was about the say the same thing for Paris—I live here, granted it's only been two years but I still keep a little map in my wallet, just to figure out the best way to get somewhere. I think it's a lot more than checking a subway map that marks you out as a tourist—checking a regular map is already a…

@USBhack: The idea in the article seems to be more "don't dry clean so much because it's bad for the environment" than "wet clean will make your items look as good as dry clean" though. He evens says in the article, "Dry cleaning your fine things extends their longevity, keeps color from fading and prevents…

@danurger: that's pretty smart actually! xD Makes you sound like a very "good" person too.

@misterfuzz: baby pancakes! :D

@orlo: I think haggling for better prices in markets is for people who...enjoy haggling XD The times I have been to markets I have seen people do it, quite obviously more for the fun of it considering the kinds of markdowns they got!

@Natnie: yum :D

@arochester: I don't like the "foolish" ones, but the actually-funny ones are great—the ones you KNOW are ridiculous, but still want to see and read, for example, google's autopilot thing, or that BBC "flying penguins" video. It's also great when they are executed with great depth—a little foolish on the surface joke…

@balls187: But do you use, for example, adblocker on firefox? If you don't, well, your opinion has more hold, but most people do. I was also of the opinion that blocking ads is bad for business (I'd rather the ads pay than me directly), but I wouldn't be mad at people blocking them when I am, even if the program is…