Never thought about the multiple alarms before. I got habituated to one alarm, always at the same time, enough so that I would wake up just before the alarm every morning so I could shut it off in order to not have to hear the buzzer. I hated the sound of that thing so much.

I've had a few conversations about the consequences of buying anything on the Xoom with my five year old. There has to be some level of trust developing as they grow up. I've bought her many comics on the comixology app and she knows those are the only ones she can read. Same thing with the kindle app and kids…

Who thought this wouldn't be the iPad 2 shrunk down to 7 inches? Its much more likely for Apple to keep the iPad 2 resolution and make the argument that the smaller screen size is all the improvement that's needed for "retina". Apple doesn't introduce new formats lightly and when it does it in a way that makes scaling…

On the last RC, networking consolidated the Work and Home profiles so the only remaining options were Home and Public. If the limited (Work) profile isn't in the RTM then its one less reason for me to get it.

Most receivers, even the cheap ones, use Audyssey, which is probably more capable than what this system offers. Audyssey has been out for years so for the flagship receiversthere have been several increasingly complex iterations of it offered while the older versions get shifted down to the cheap models.

I haven't really used Cloud Player other than as a way to download mp3's bought from Amazon easily. I like what Amazon is doing here in providing a matching service that one ups both Apple and Google. More platform support, matching and way more tracks than either iTunes of GMusic is hard to pass up.

Well, kids that age are remarkably fast learners. One or two negative experiences and they are guaranteed to pick up the basics of gun safety.

I've always used a second fine filter on a regular french press, mainly to be able to get a finer grind since I don't mind the sediment.

French press grind is usually supposed to be coarse as well, which may result in less caffeine extraction. I just use a second fine filter with my press and grind more finely.

There was an article yesterday on how straight white men were the easy difficulty setting on life, crossposted to Kotaku and Jezebel... Maybe someone at gawker wanted a commenter war.

I've been happy with Transparency. But I also pretty much started with Transparency so any quirks I probably don't even notice. While some of the other skins are prettier, Transparency is the best when it comes to list views, which are what I use most often.

So the author feels bad about being a hypocrite when it comes to spending too much time in front of a screen so he lets his kid do the same. That's not the solution its just being too ingrained in your lazy asshole behavior to keep your kid from becoming a lazy asshole as well.

All of them. WMC for watching TV, XBMC for local media, Plex as a local media server for tablets and phones.

I found Embassytown to be average. There were some very good ideas there but also a great deal of clumsiness in actually getting them expressed. It definitely had the feel of a first foray into a new genre and while I didn't get overly frustrated with the missteps, I had a hard time getting fully into the novel…

Usually not, but if the price goes up before the launch then you aren't charged the difference. Its mainly just a way to queue up books that you know you will buy anyway and get them as soon as they come out.

Contact FB tech support to reset any current authorizations you may have with the various sites that use FB authentication. I don't know if a change in password will automatically reset them but its better to assume the worst and that whoever logged in used your ID elsewhere and may still be able to keep using it.

Normally, Sony is never in consideration but I ended up picking up a laptop from them recently when I was looking for a work laptop. The 13' Vaio SA series is actually pretty nice and not overpriced like most of their stuff. It does have a bit of Sony bloat but its way better than in the past. It does very well with…

In this case there was also the huge discrepancy in marketing between the Lorax and JC. When your five year old is telling you in the car that Friday is her lucky day because that's the day the Lorax movie comes out in theaters, there is no way you are going to avoid taking her to see the movie that weekend.

Abjection makes me think of Ray Bradbury's "Skeleton". Such a great story and perfect to describe the concept of abjection.

This isn't how MS works. Windows 7 didn't take all the Vista-y features and go further, they pruned them back to make them corporate acceptable. Windows 9 will do the same to Win 8. It will be more stable, more safe and will have a MAK friendly interface readymade for the business world even if it means more…