I think this article is more about not knowing exactly what the bill is charging you for. I mean, my water and power bills fluctuate every month so they could add a fee and, if I didn't look at my statements, I probably wouldn't notice unless it was particularly large.

Depends on where you live. When we bought, our combined income for a teacher and a librarian was about $80k and we bought a nice house for $132k. And this was not even two years ago.

You might want to look at your withholding, too. Generally, when you switch your W4 to "Married Filing Jointly" and list two exemptions, the amount withheld goes down (because they're assuming yours is the only job supporting both people). Your "nice return" may have just gone into your paycheck because less was…

The idea is to count up in small increments using fives and tens.

I don't necessarily disagree, but I do think it's worth pointing out that the only reason their business model is struggling is because of illegal activity. I mean, if the US Government suddenly stopped enforcing patents and Apple started losing revenue because companies were making iPhone clones for cheaper, we…

Oh, I completely agree, I just think its a bit disingenuous to point to the few micro ways in which piracy can help companies while ignoring the macro trends that hurt them. It's been good for consumers (at least in music) but you can't deny that it's been extremely harmful to companies.

This biggest harm piracy has done to the media industry is to introduce and further the idea of unbundling. People will argue that piracy didn't damage the music industry when the truth is that the worst thing piracy ever did is allow people to get individual songs. Once that happened, and once the industry followed…

I love doing this with bocconcini (the little mozzarella balls). You have to leave them out to dry out a bit, since they come packaged in water, but they ease up the cutting part and make the end product a little more consistent, since all the pieces are roughly the same size.

According to the university she got into a tiff with the coaching staff and that's why she left. They granted her a release from her scholarship but didn't support her waiver because she never gave them any documentation for the hardship she was claiming. Whether you believe that, I don't know, but it makes things…

The alternate, of course, is to jack up your cable rates.

The players I understand. The ball popped up in the air and it was like an infield fly that nobody calls and then falls for a hit.

This reminds me a lot of NCAA Football 08 for the Wii, which is still the worst video game I've ever played. They removed about half of the features from the last Nintendo NCAA game (05) and literally added nothing new, except for motion controls.

I'm not sure where you were playing, but we had almost weekly tournaments with 20-40 people in the Minneapolis/St. Paul/Rochester area.

Also worth pointing out that Decipher had two other Star Wars games at the same time. Young Jedi and Jedi Knight. But the original was always the best and a fantastic game. I fell out of it shortly after they lost the license (and really started ramping down as they started messing around with Defensive Shields and…

That's fair. I just have a general aversion to gift registry creep. For anything beyond weddings and baby showers, I think they're just tacky. People are using them for birthdays now and college or just keeping an Amazon Wish List for what-the-hell-ever.

How about no. Isn't this the entire point of having a graduation party: so that people will give you money to use for college expenses?

Just as a clarification, do you want the date of the shooting or the date we searched? That is, if an article came up on a search for March 10th, but the incident was on March 9th, which date do we put down?

That has nothing to do with the color of the eggs, but with the chicken's conditions. Farm fresh eggs are generally better than free range eggs, which are generally better than supermarket eggs. But you can get brown supermarket eggs that taste worse than white farm eggs. The color doesn't matter.

Majora's Mask, I think.

I get where you're coming from, though my tiring of big worlds usually comes from one game (though that's because I don't play a lot of open-world games). I'm however many hours into GTAV it takes to finish the single-player to 100% and get to level 65 in online (it's got to be 100 hours by now) and at this point I…