@amcglamry: Dunno a thing about HVAC. But maybe an attic fan would help draw the hot air out of the house and the cool air from downstairs to upstairs.

@GrabbinPeelz: Eating peanut butter? Is this a safe alternative to the old choking game? [gizmodo.com]

@bearcatmike: In Gmail, you can also add "+keyword" to your address, as in FirstNameLastName+keyword@gmail.com. Then filter by to: address.

@PopSmith: I didn't make a note of it because I was in a state of frustration. It was probably government websites with online forms to be filled out.

@links462: article

I gave up on Chrome for the time being and returned to Firefox a couple months ago. Primary reason: no native way of disabling underlining of links. Secondary reason (not Chrome's fault): There were some websites that were not detecting Chrome correctly and incorrectly declaring that they were "incompatible" with my…

@RickS: RTFA

@MrMusic: True, true. But don't hold your breath.

Damn it, Lifehacker. I keep reading this headline in my newsreader as "The $3 iPad".

@codyflee: I was just going to say the same thing. My local weather and apartment are so moderate, I use neither heating nor AC. But I do use lighting. We might save a bundle if we went to bed at 7 PM and wake up at 6 AM.

Correction: "it looks pretty great too." should be "it looks pretty terrible, too."

Cool... but why did he have to entirely remove the shoe's upper in order to put the sensors in the midsole and sole?

@Gotlactose: But if it's an Asian family with four kids... forget it.

@emailrob001: So, if my family and I are in front of you in the line, I should choose the one last line that has no families in it? Okay. ;)

@Costermonger: I approve of this comment.

@red_alert360: You can block MAC addresses from joining your network. But you can't block sniffers from reading all of your network's traffic flowing through the air. Just because they can't use your network doesn't mean that they can't read all the data being transmitted on your network. That's a problem inherent to…

@digitmint: Actually, looking back, my programming experiences did include both book learning and human interaction. I spent a lot of hours with books and computers. I also spent a lot of hours with geeky friends.

@somidscr21: Perl??

@Co0ki3Mon2t3r: Yeah, Alice was one of the first things that popped into my mind. Another was Squeak. The problem is that I have not tried either of them. Anyone tried them for learning or teaching programming?

Nephew in 7th grade wants to learn computer programming. Specifically, he wants recommendations on a book to read to learn.