As a southerner who tends to skew towards over politeness, if you were taught that, then you should do it. I wouldn't hold other people to this standard per se, but keep it as evidence of your own good upbringing and couthness.

If you have a fever, don't go, otherwise I would base it more on whether it will cause a bad impression (seeing someone with snot dripping from their nose is hard to recover from). As for giving someone something, keep in mind we are pretty much constantly sharing viruses and bacteria, but in your case, it is doubtful…

Should I do a clean install of OSX Lion? Any diagnostic I can run in Snow Leopard which would answer this question?

One addition to overall: Perian. Thanks for the inclusion of the microapps but I think you left out Caffeine, Insomnia, Chuck, and Capture?

No love for the CyberDuck? Nice list though (maybe some 1Password action too or is that just asking too much).

Most CPUs will have a heatsink and fan included if required, and a little thing of thermal compound too. If you want it quiet, or have aspirations to over clock, a third-party heatsink is needed.

@Dirk Anger That was what got me thinking about it. The circles are how a person decides to share, so if they don't add you, you shouldn't be able to see their content (unless public). Adding a person is more like the inverse of following in Twitter, since you are sharing with them, but not explicitly vice versa.

That definitely makes sense. I guess I was just trying to figure out if the circle concept in practice is really different from the friending concept of facebook. Placing people in circles does not require reciprocity but it appears there is rarely a time a one-way agreement would be chosen (I mean, if not with…

This is going to sound overly complicated, but bear with me if you have a minute: if circles are how I specify who I share data/updates with, AND if I add you to my circles but you don't reciprocate, then my updates appear in your incoming whereas the only way your updates appear in my stream is if you added me to a…

No need to add them (so that you share with them) but just have them add you so they share with you. In that case it is more similar to a twitter feed, but I can honestly say the discussions on their posts on G+ are quite interesting.

Wouldn't it be better if you just added us to your circle, since the sharing impetus lies with you due to the circle directionality (a big difference in the forced reciprocation of facebook)? Granted I already have you in my circles, but I think I should remove you and then you can show up in my 'incoming' feed and I…

I appreciate the recommendation, but being an actual scientist I pretty much have that one covered (i.e., debunking what the media presents as science). Not that I am infallible but being a skeptic and not trusting anything without hard proof is pretty much my job.

most 4 cylinders have timing chains which don't need changing until 250k, hence the recommendation. My current car is a 1990 350SDL with 250k miles. Got it sub-$3K, and its still a luxury car which should last for 250,000 more miles (and has already been on a a few 10 hour road trips).

Every car I have ever bought was for $3k. Granted most of those needed about $1k initially just to get up to perfect (tires/brakes/timing belt), but I can get around 100,000 more miles out of them with minimum investment and then when I re-sale, its generally for $2-3k. Think in terms of cost of ownership: how much…

So I am a scientist, and for some reason I really appreciate solid news without a hard-science focus:

totally

And I never had a chance to use PDF pen [lifehacker.com] , pretty awesome.

No Windows NT customizations? I heard there was a script to make Aero Snap work.

This post may help [lifehacker.com] for some issues with the open wifi. I think you need two routers, but the open one can be something super cheap like this asus (which I own) [www.newegg.com] and has DD-WRT already on it, or easily installed. Just run them on different channels.

I was trying to figure that out too, since burried in Onyx seems to be some pretty powerful options (in the cleaning tab for instance), but both seem pretty solid but probably the same tricks.