@Bakari: let's not get hooked up on socio-political ideologies now...

@Bakari: I thought not, I was making a light-hearted joke about the existance of anti-grammar nazis...or grammar marxists if you would. It wasn't directed at you.

@Bakari: in light of this discussion, we will have to coin the pharse "grammar nazi nazi" to describe such people who criticize grammar nazis

@grysl: it's ok, you'll eventually also forget why you're wearing the rubber band

Those of you interested in the original scientific work that was the source of this news, it's from a paper published on Monday (8th Nov) in Fertility and Sterility journal entitled "Protection from scrotal hyperthermia in laptop computer users"

@Carrespondent: it's considered a "problem" because your scrotum only needs to be slightly warmer than body temperature to do damage (this is why the scrotum hangs outside the body normally, since it needs to be slightly cooler than body temp).

@arahman56: cut some corners, make some more money

@arahman56: you forget that one of the main reasons for consumer electronics is making money.

@tatar0900: Oh yes, or the Droid 2. Since you mentioned it, I went and looked for comparison of specs and benchmark. A lot of people were making blind speculations of the performance based on comparing specs and whatever, but I did find some more comprehensive benchmarks: [www.anandtech.com]

I've tried some of these alternative keyboards, but they are still far from the experience of typing on a physical keyboard. My first Android phone was the G1, and it looks like my next will be the G2/Desire Z

@simulana: I didn't misread the article, I was commenting that the post summary does not highlight the importance of the salt.

@neergrm: I would say that you'd probably be better off just using regular sand and emery paper

@neergrm: yes, dry flour would be mildly abrasive, in fact, you can get some very decent surface shine by using salt, and then sugar, and then flour as abrasives with different grit and hardness.

@neergrm: unlikely - add a little flour to water, and you get very soft dough - rubbing dough on copper is unlikely to be abrasive.

Someone did some research into why taco sauce cleans pennies:

Did anyone else see the picture and read the title as "Winterize

@majortomm: try a wire coathanger: [lifehacker.com]

@majortomm: it's just sitting on a speaker back there, propped up by wedging a couple of altoids tins against the wall :)

@not_a_virus.exe.vbs: I'll tell you what the best thing is - butane soldering iron. It'll produce a similar jet, but you can also snuff the flame and pass it over a catalyst to produce only hot air, and then you can screw on a soldering tip and use it as a soldering iron.

@majortomm: depends what you do on it. If all you're doing is coding/IM, that's fine, but if you want to, for example keep all your toolbars, layers, history list, etc. from a graphics editing or CG package on a separate screen, and leave your main one free to go full-screen canvas, then your proposal doesn't work. …