Does anyone else have the opposite problem? I remember /all sorts/ of information - usually useless bits of trivia (biscuit comes from the Latin for twice cooked), but often just things people say about themselves that kind of slip out. Then I have to pretend not to remember that small fact you mentioned two years ago…

There's good broccoli?

When reading reviews on the internet, my rule is to always read a couple of the worst reviews possible. If they complain about things that aren't specifically the product's fault (the box came a little dinged up, was delivered late) or that don't matter to you (this edition doesn't have the 1979 Laserdisc commentary…

I feel like I should have mentioned this in the original post: I do wash my hands when I go to the bathroom. It was just that I read the post and had a brief thought about whether or not it was actually cleaner.

This is a genuine question: is my penis really worse to touch than the tap of a public restroom? It gets cleaned with the rest of me, and then goes away under two levels of cloth for the rest of the day. That sounds, at least at first thought, to be much more hygienic than a shared tap in a room where people flush…

I'm wondering if maybe there's a internal rule with whoever manages Amazon's Facebook posts that they're not allowed to post anything without linking to a relevant Amazon product or page. (It wouldn't surprise me.) They saw Gandolfini had passed, wanted to share the information, but couldn't without linking to The…

I don't think he's right.

I like to replace "political correctness" in this kind of comment with "treating other people's feelings with respect". Really clears up what people are actually saying.

My major concern is the fact that this becomes renting Adobe software, rather than buying it. I'm locked into their programs by virtue of them being industry standard, as is basically everyone in the graphic design industry. Adobe have our balls in a vice, and if/when decide to up their price (it's 50 bucks a month…

So, I live outside America, in Australia. We have a sales tax, the GST, which is more or less just 10% on everything. Will Amazon have to charge me that tax if I purchase something?

I've never understood why, if you have the ability and desire to hack something (say, the AP Twitter account), you don't have the ability and skill to read a couple of tweets and get a feel for their voice before you post a fake tweet.

I've not got AdBlock installed, and I've never seen one of these ads on Gizmodo. (I'm not a frequent viewer, but I'll read an article or two a day.) Do you see them often?

Apparently Neil Gorton at Millenium FX, the show's creature makeup company, has been sculpting aliens in his spare time just in case they could be used in the future, because commissioning them all at once in time for an episode would be too expensive.

Because they keep having unprotected intercourse. Next question.

I think I'm about to.

"lost an average two kilograms of fat and gained 1.1 kilograms of muscle mass" (from source)

Can anyone explain to me why I'd use Alfred over the default Spotlight? Command+Space Bar opens it up straight away, a couple of letters gets me straight into all of my most-used programs. I'm sure there must be a reason, because so many people love it so much; I just don't see what it can offer me.

This movie was filmed in 2008. Take a minute, let that sink in. This movie was filmed before Barack Obama became president.

Yeah! The best type of interface is my fist inter yer face! Why don't we invent a phone where you have to stab it to do things?

That's fair enough. I was curious because I've started it in the last two weeks, and am absolutely loving it. I think I'd avoided most of the hype beyond, like, a couple of people saying "this is really good" - I don't know that it airs on TV in Australia at all, and I tend to stay away from the kind of places that…