@cnlevo: Yes, I neglected to mention that she did indeed rinse with fresh water—once she got back to the house a couple of hours later. However, you and the other here are probably right that the dip in the ocean put it beyond repair to begin with.

I'll have to try that tip about keeping a cutting board in place, but the person cutting the bread in the picture might want to check out this Gizmodo posting on how to hold a knife.

One blogger asserts that "the odds of being on given departure which is the subject of a terrorist incident have been 1 in 10,408,947 over the past decade". Seems pretty safe to me.

A family member of mine could have used this tip a few days ago. She dropped her phone into the ocean, and although she followed my advice to immediately remove the battery and let the phone dry out, she only gave it a few hours before reinserting the battery and plugging it in to the wall. Unfortunately, the phone…

Thanks, Lifehacker! I'll be on a 7 hour flight tomorrow—this would be fantastic!

Each of these products has its place. I use all of them except Basecamp on a daily basis, each for different reasons.

Vote: Google Docs

Google Contacts still seems awfully bare-bones to me, but this is a really nice feature. I keep hoping they'll spend a little more time here.

I thought this article was actually a little light on content, despite being on 19 pages. It could basically be boiled down to:

@Nitesh Singh: See definite integrals

@Nitesh Singh: Derivative of (x^3 + 2x^2 - 3x + 8)

This is seriously cool. It was also cool to see that the steps that Wolfram took are not necessarily the same steps I would take, but equally valid and logical. This is especially useful when learning math, as it shows that there are often multiple ways to get to the same answer. It could expose a person to a new…

I generally reply to the sender, letting them know that they have the wrong person. This serves both altruistic and selfish purposes: it helps the sender to get the information to the intended person, and it potentially gets me out of a contact list that I don't want to be in.

@Brookespeed: I hear you. I dislike frames as much as the next person, and I do my best to use valid CSS as much as possible. However, sometimes well-intentioned changes can just bring new problems.

@Rob Yeahok: It's easy to jump to that conclusion—just try to download the Flash player on an iPhone and you'll see Adobe's snarky comment about Apple's practices—but the story is probably a little more complicated than that. Take, for example, the expectation that Silverlight may be available on the iPhone soon. I…

But will it help me track my stolen nukes? I'm starting to think that I'm not going to find them.

My grandmother has a pomegranate tree and sends me pomegranates periodically. Her recommended technique is very similar:

Vote: Amazon.com

@BishopBlaize: If the version you have at home is 2007, that makes sense. Office 2010 allows customization of the ribbon—that's a change in this version. Right-click on the ribbon and click "Customize the Ribbon" to get started.

@virgilstar: 1 - you can customize the ribbon in Office 2010.