Not so much that the brain can't. More like "won't" without some help. I've trained myself to round up, and I cant tell you how many times I've said something like,

Forty years of driving. Inveterate speeder. (I get so bored at 55, I'm probably less safe than at 75-80, which is what I — and everyone else on the road — is usually doing.) Pulled over once in all that time. (I didn't get a ticket, but only because the cop got called away to a bad accident up the highway. Not a…

@Adam Pash:

I've edited Wikipedia. Not often and not regularly because in their biological topics there's not often much that's wrong. Really. (In my other life, I'm a college biology prof.) Generally, in the sciences, Wikipedia is an amazing resource at the intro level. All that bad stuff you hear about Wikipedia is based…

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I was one of the first buyers last year. Full disclosure: I'm in love with the concept and the fact that my other XO is in Mongolia.

I've been running FF 3.1b1 since about the day it came out. I was just going to try it, but it so totally blew me away I've never gone back to 3.03. I turned TraceMonkey on in about:config, using LH's good directions :) , and it is PHENOMENAL.

I'm going to look up this "iron" thing on Wikipedia, but once I have it figured out, this sounds like a great idea!

Printing from Linux, you get no backchat. You can print till the type goes gray and disappears. (Running the cartridges totally dry is bad for the printheads on my Epson Stylus 220, so I have to watch out for that myself.)

@the_boffin: have you tried the ScribeFire extension for Firefox? I don't know that I'd call it really good, but it's the best thing I've seen so far. Although their most recent versions have gotten irritating in terms of trying to push users to post advertising. But then, I'm easily irritated.

"Security" questions have always struck me as stupid nonsense. Answer them truthfully, and anyone can figure them out. Answer them like I do, and they're hard to remember. I mean "Favorite concert" = Chomolungma ?? (It happens to be the Tibetan name for Mt. Everest, which I happen to know. Long story.)

Just adding my vote to those saying NO GABBING.

I pack sandwiches (not-so-yummy when I make them, but after a few hours waiting for my delayed 3-hour flight . . . ambrosia!) as well as carrots, cake, chocolate, and anything else I can think of. I'm not really afraid they'll stop selling food on the outside. What I'm really afraid of is that they will sell it, and…

Nothing to do with speed, but Google sure does have a /*cough, cough*/ interesting license to go with that browser:

@johnsmith1234: um, how to put this politely?, did you bother looking at Firefox's download page? You didn't see the big green button that says "download FF3 for Linux"? (It sniffs out your OS.) And if you click that button, it — I know this is hard to believe — it installs FF3. I don't remember even having to…

My move to Linux started a few years ago when software I bought didn't stay bought. MS Word that came with a new computer, for instance, nagged you to register 27 times and if you didn't, even after all that, it stopped working. That freaked me out. Next, they'd be bricking OSes and music players. (Oh, wait. . .…

So the big G has reinvented Firefox Reduced. I must be missing something. This is interesting . . . why?

I used Gallery2 for a couple of years. It's very good, and totally programmable, but I found the upload and organizing interface very cumbersome. Worse, because of the rather strict security settings at my hosting service, I had to make some directories writable by anybody for the program to work. (A subroutine…

Give Adblock's developer, Wladimir Palant, the Nobel Prize. Without him, the web would be unusable.

What is wrong with some of the commenters? You remove a candy bar or extra paper towelling, that's that. Nobody else can use them.