The key, for me, to the matchstick/golf tee/dowel thing is to make sure you use wood glue.

Yeah, right! (<—Click the link!)

I just enjoy cleaning the litter box, the rabbit cages, and the hamster cage. All that animal waste is just so much fun to deal with!

@artokosan: In their How it doesn't work page they explicitly say that it doesn't consider saftey.

It listed the local UFCW (United Food and Commercial Workers) Union as a grocery store! LOL!

Whatever you do, DON'T use the double sided blades shown in the pictures with this article. Man, you'll loose a finger!

Of course, VoIP numbers, where you can specify what area code and/or prefix you get, wouldn't be accurately "rendered" right.

Hey! That's Me! I'm mrmath! I plugged (pun intended—and the main reason for this post) LH!

Wouldn't it be "an Ubuntu"? Also, what kind of proprietary software is there in Ubuntu?

Lifehacker is a blog? I don't think of it that way. I think of it as a news website. When I think of blogs, I think of "So, today, like, at the iced cream parlor, like, tommy so looked at me."

@GrayBird: No. I don't like the vista menu. Just the fact that I don't know where the Start > Run function is located is enough to turn me off to the Vista menu. (And, yes, I could be too stupid to see it staring me in the face, but I just don't see it.)

I got a fon router (www.fon.com) for free from a pomotional offer. I set it up so that my house's wireless is a free hotspot. Now I can go anywhere ihn the world where there is a fon hotspot and connect for free. There are two within walking distance from my hotel right now, but the hotel offers it for free, so I…

Just what we need. ANOTHER IM Service. Don't these people see that there are more than enough of these things out there? Jabber. AIM. MSN. Yahoo!. Enough's enough already.

I'm a pet person, and specifically a dog person. That said, I think anyone who brings their dogs with them in public just for the sake of bringing their dog, is rude. There is no reason to bring your dog to work, unless you work at the vet's office or a pet store, or something like that. Think about the people in…

To reproduce this on your own, open up Notepad and type some garbage in there. Use the X to close notepad. It will give you the text has changed dialog. Control C on that, and you will get the bonk sound. Say no, and control v:

It must just be me. It takes less than 5 seconds for reader to load a pdf for me. What needs speeding up?

You forgot an option in the poll. Not going to switch to Linux any time soon.

Thanks are always appropriate, I think. I agree with AngryScilian on making it more than just "Thanks", and invademyhead (in a way) that the thanks can be sent to the person, and the person's boss/supervisor.

@AcidReign: I had bifocals when I was 6. You're not old because you need them. Although, now that I have them again, at 38 I do insist on the progressives because I'm to young for the lines (I would need trifocals) across my lense.

@DashTheHand: Wouldn't it be easier to format the hard drive and reinstall the OS, keeping the machine?