I think you need to add that hot dog jerky recipie to [instructibles.com] :D

I put one over our overly sensitive smoke detector when we cook. :D It doesn't take much to set it off. Learned that trick from the potheads at college.

I split some of my votes and gave them to Consumerist, but I gave Lifehacker my blog of the year vote. :D

The problem with internet sharing is that the number of people who leech always far exceeds the number that host. So the few, generous people get overtaken by the greedy horde. There is no advantage to having an open network. It only invites lower-level hackers to use your router for practice.

I've gotta say, as a new parent, that babysitting gift certificates are worth more than anything you can give me this Christmas. Wii, PS3, iPhone, pfffffft! Give me 7 days of babysitting - no questions asked, 7 glorious nights out on the town or doing whatever - that's priceless! :D

Wow. Just tried it out and I was browsing Lifehacker when everything slowed to a crawl on my PC. I checked the task list and Firefox was just gobbling up memory - it got to 568mb before I shut it down. :D Guess I'll wait a little longer...

@amspoon: Exactly. The spam filtration on gmail is what will keep it as my email provider of choice. I actually even have a DEDICATED spam account that I use to sign up for everything and it very rarely gets actual, unsolicited, spam. My Yahoo email on the other hand gets spam all the time and I have hardly used…

I did this a few months back and it is awesome. There is a nice little scripting community creating new programs to run off of it every day. It's extremely easy to pull off. In fact, the hardest part was coughing up the money for the action replay - which isn't that easy to find cheap, unless a friend is willing to…

Number 1. is by far my favorite. I do that at least every couple months. It's really the best way to keep your PC unmuddied.

Looks like it crashed.... :P

Wow. Looks like Chicago got crapped on. :P

Doesn't seem very useful to me. I already uninstalled it. :) My site got a D - CDN being the biggest culprit.

For some reason this feature makes me feel a little bit dumber.

Somewhere a hacker is drooling. :)

IE is to Linux as Continental tires are to Ferrari.

@dave: Yep, the main point is that one approach isn't enough. I think the absolute worst approach though is to allow your kids to have PC's in their rooms. They *will* get around whatever security you put on there, I guarantee it. Unless we're talking about some serious restrictions configured in the router - but…

Also, there's nothing saying that you can't just flat out tell your kids that you've installed software that tracks where you go and you will be checking it once a week. ;) If they're tech savvy, they'll go nuts trying to find it.

My vote is for parental supervision. I hear too many parents talking about how they *need* to buy a PC for their kids. Whatever. If you can't manage to share access to a PC with your child, here's an idea: Have a centrally located desktop, and buy yourself a laptop.

@jared: Sure, I could build them at a slight angle, but still, if something in the drawer got lodged or stopped it from closing completely, you're gonna break your leg or knee or foot or head eventually. Bottom line: if you don't have kids and/or are a meticulous person that would double check the drawers…

I see a disaster brewing. What about if you have kids and they leave the drawer open. You or they come flying down the stairs and....BAM! :o