Scoff all you want at the “time savings” of the elastic shoelaces, but for anyone handicapped who either cannot reach to tie their shoes or has arthritis so bad they don’t because their hands no longer work, these are a godsend...

Scoff all you want at the “time savings” of the elastic shoelaces, but for anyone handicapped who either cannot…

Are you going to continue finding deals on toys? I’ve purchased more than a few things for the kids based on deals found here.

Are you going to continue finding deals on toys? I’ve purchased more than a few things for the kids based on deals…

Fight me

Fight me

If you have never read Slaughterhouse-Five, stop what you are doing and plunk down the $2 right now.

If you have never read Slaughterhouse-Five, stop what you are doing and plunk down the $2 right now.

Introvert’s Counterpoint: Be friends with someone just as introverted and bitchy and intense and misanthropic as you are. You just won’t have that Instagram type of friendship that people make sitcoms & stock-photos about.

No.

No.

My wife is a Geologist, and she has always told me that geologists in the field are notorious drinkers. Confirmed.

We’re not going anywhere.

We’re not going anywhere.

Fat, disgusting, but not dead. I think not dead is a good thing.

I use a $30 boar bristle brush. I am not tossing that because it is “dirty.”

Not if the only brushes available don’t work with your hair like your old faithful does. It’s well worth a few minutes maintenance and a sacrificed freebie toothbrush from the dentist.

You can clean it faster than it would take for you to make a trip to CVS, what a stupid suggestion. “Wasted shampoo”...oh, you mean the literal $0.005 worth of shampoo? And you don’t have any spare toothbrushes around that are used for cleaning?

Gawker’s not shutting down, Gawker.com is shutting down. Nothing else is going anywhere.

Gawker’s not shutting down, Gawker.com is shutting down. Nothing else is going anywhere.

For truly lazy (like me), denture cleaning tablets.

We’re independent of the other Gawker sites, and that’s not changing. From a reader perspective, you shouldn’t really notice anything different in the near (and possibly far) term.

We’re independent of the other Gawker sites, and that’s not changing. From a reader perspective, you shouldn’t…

I will not. If my phone vendor stopped putting 3.5mm jacks on their phones, I would stop buying that vendor’s phones. No exceptions. I don’t care how good the rest of the phone is. 3.5mm is ubiquitous, it’s the standard, it’s simple and it works.

Nope. I’ve spent more on headphones than I have on pocket computers. I don’t want anything else that’s going to require charging, and I like that the headphones that I have can be used in between my phone, computer and stereo. So no, the lack of a 3.5mm jack would be an automatic non-starter.

Forcing the switch from analogue to digital only is a DRM nightmare. Tech dirt just wrote a great commentary.

What about the inevitable worse DRM that comes with switching to purely digital? We switched to HDMI and got HDCP. What will be the audio equivalent once analog is no longer used? Will Apple have a pre-approved list of devices you’re able to conenct? Will they prevent 3rd party manufacturers from connecting to Apple…