I lived in a complex where it was standard practice to up the rent every year. I looked in the paper to see what my options were, and found out they were asking my current rent for new tenants. I went in to the manager, with the paper, and told them that I wasn't going to pay the increase. I made it clear I wasn't…

The last method is not illegal or immoral. Becoming a student to get student discounts is not a bad idea if those night courses will get you somewhere in life—either professionally or personally. If you're interested in painting for fun, go take a community college course on art, and use your student discount to buy…

I think Alton just uses a flat surface because he doesn't want it to be a mono-tasker. ;)

I'll stick to my $20 Wrangler's from Walmart that I can clean guilt free in the washer, thank you.

They have evidence, from Apollo 12, that bacteria are not killed by the cold. Someone sneezed on a piece of equipment that was sent to the moon. Three years later, Apollo 12 brought part of it back. They found the bacteria were still living.

On my phone, which isn't considered a smart phone, the alarm plays even with the volume off. I can't remember where I set that, but I think I did.

The second I saw it was a Wegmans' list, I said to myself, Kevin must have written this one!

I've been using Tax Act for about 8 years or so. I buy the fed and state bundle every year, and it always works really well for me. One year Turbo Tax sent me a free demo for some reason. I gave it a shot, and got the EXACT SAME NUMBERS from both programs, and Tax Act was half the price.

I skip the thank you, tell them I'm not interested, and that if they call again, it will be considered harassment. Then I hang up. I've even used it on the Marines when they wouldn't take "No" for an answer when I was 18. Works every time.

I vote for YES. I have my own domain, and host the services with Google Apps for Domains. My kids all have email addresses that are like john@doemail.com. Funny story. My oldest was making "business cards" for a class at school, and put her email address on the card. Someone in her class told her she had to use…

I hope Ubuntu 11.04 has an option to install less than the full product. Netbook isn't just about the Unity desktop. It's about a slimmer product that runs on lower end machines. I also hope that there's a way to boot without Unity as there is in Netbook. My "netbook" (read older laptop) can't run Unity. If…

My trick to getting great customer service is two fold. First, I will admit to the person that it is not their fault (when it's not). Second, I treat them with the respect I want from them.

Some places in the US have made it a crime to take pictures or video of Police doing their jobs. Your mileage may vary.

I do technical work, and sometimes it takes more of my brain than I have to give at that exact moment. I use distractions to give my brain a quick 30 second rest so I can solve these problems. If I couldn't fire up my browser to check Facebook, or the news, or whatever, I think I might actually get LESS work done.

I have an old laptop my dad put out to pasture that only has 512meg ram which it shares with the video card. Ubuntu's Netbook distro wouldn't work because it would boot into Unity, which I didn't have enough power to run. I looked it up on line, and you can change the windows manager when you log in so you're not…

If the Internet wins, I'm sure Al Gore will be there to accept the award.

I use Winamp with an alarm clock plugin that lets me set a playlist as the alarm.

@Andrew Abrams Marchant-Shapiro: What I'll do is turn the laptop on, but leave it at the power-on password prompt. No disk activity yet, as I'm still in BIOS. The backlight goes off when I close the lid. Almost no power to the processor. Works great, and drains very little power from the battery.