Good idea for anything but sex toys.

Eating more calories than you burn makes you fat? Say it ain't so! Eating too many calories at the right time won't? No. It ain't so.

@allauthors: I agree - you have to answer with the qualification first, then give the answer to the question being asked. That way, the "Yes, but" part is always heard:

@kellanpan: Keep your stick on the ice.

From 2004 the lack of Apple gadgets is understandable — look at what appears to be a stack of voice recorders on the near edge of the table.

What a ripoff - use heavy garbage bags, big food bags - whatever you can get that doesn't leak and won't puncture easily.

It would be surprising if they found anything else:

@alwaysanswera: I'll second that - how are rookies going to learn if they don't try...even in the wrong clothes?

Sand and stain and then cover everything with $120 worth of glass, per the article.

It would be surprising if they found anything else:

Faking a loud orgasm while being groped would provide a comedy relief if nothing else. You couldn't be arrested for this without having to take down at least 51% of the rest of the population.

I'm thinking that loudly faking an orgasm while being groped would be good comedy at the very least. They couldn't arrest you for that without taking down at least 51% of the country with you.

These "cat stoves" - so called because the first models were made with cat food tins - have been around for years and there's a whole subculture of stove builders wrapped around them. Newer models have relied on various aluminum soda cans and use larger cans (the big Heineken beer cans are a favorite) as cookware.

I'm going to stencil "Pythias Brown Fan Club" on my undies in lead-based paint.

This suggests the use of very thin bungee cord, but "It doesn't really matter what kind of knot you tie. Just tie a tight, small knot and the rubber will keep it tight." won't fly - elastic likes to untie itself in use.

IMHO (from a non-fiction writer):

@TheMightyBuzzard: I think you're right - the "slow" comes from the old drive (stunning improvement in one of my wife's machines). Didn't help the netbook all that much.

The most disturbing things about studies like this is that it reminds us that the huge majority of our experimental psychology work is done on college students because it's convenient and cheap for the researchers, and does not address factors in the larger population.

Wonderful - the older, slower or smaller the machine, the more this helps. Good on the quad core, better on the old XP Dell ... now for the netbook.

Herbal tea with a cough drop dissolved into it and a shot of whiskey. Repeat until you either feel better or it doesn't matter.