@askoble: That's a substantial interest rate! 5 dollars at 300% compounded daily!

@two2tone: Wait, you consider a $100 substantial and yet you know your bank manager's name and the phone number?

If the situation your friend is in won't improve with the money, don't bother with the gift/loan.

@Glomb: Next time you see your friend and they say "Oh, remind me to pay you that money" Tell them, "Ok I'll send you a paypal request for the money right now."

I once forgot my windows password on an old machine and downloaded a bootable linux image that allowed me to change the admin password.

I'd like to try something like this. I have a bad back and standing for that long wouldn't be feasible for me, but I think if I got a high chair so I could alternate sitting and standing that might work.

@gthing: Why not just get a higher chair so one desk will work for both?

@ThaMofo: Are you on the same page as I am right now?!?

How about I put a headline above and a sentence below a broken video someone else posted and surround it by ads that make me money?

Do I smell a new comment system for Giz?

Well seeing as how the airlines can barely stay in business without subsidies, something tells me they won't be investing in new-fangled aircraft.

First thing I though: Maybe this will lead to a discovery allowing suspended animation of humans.

Just recently I read an article by Kat, "Who Wants to Live in This Giant Slinky With Me?", where one of the commenters complained about all the "creeper comments" made about Kat. And I noticed a number of comments were banned to #no for said creepiness.

I'm not buying it. How many millions of people run electric space heaters and don't get raided. I call B.S.

I went to a client's house last week to setup Frontpage for them (don't ask) and they had so may search bar programs installed on IE there was only about 2 inches left to see the webpage.

@jaxun: Arrrggg, I hate those fwd:fwd:fwd email scams!!

What about taking it down. Anyone who's deflated a raft or mattress knows what a PITA it is to deflate something and fold it up.

@nuclearbalm: You're right. I'm sorry.

@TheVeryBad: "Besides low light or reflective light"

@jnemesh: There's an issue with Macs right now that causes people to pay 1.5 to 2 times the price for an equivalent computer, it's called the Apple tax.