@shazaam42: Some people honestly believe California IS in the Axis of Evil.

Meh, maybe only 8% of people, when confronted with a camera on a busy street, can articulate exactly what a browser is, that doesn't mean the other 92% don't know what it is. If you told one of these people to "open their browser" they'd probably, yano, open their browser. Unlike those of us who hang out on…

@winshape: Unless they have the monitor store and/or transmit data to the driver's company (or to DoT or law enforcement) to prove that they're wearing it. No recorded brain activity during vehicle operation = trouble. Although I know of a few truck drivers who travel with dogs or other pets, so I guess they could…

@Step666: Use two and throw a movie, music visualization, pictures, or something else up on the third one, or just turn it off when you don't want anything on it. Having several monitors is useful when you're working with lots of reference materials, e-mail, IM, etc... I can usually get away with 2, no problem, but…

@FrightenedByPenguins: I'm reading this! I don't have any invites though. Myself and 6 friends/associates all signed up for invites months ago, assuming at least one of us would get one and invite the others, but nay.

She's clearly keeping an eye on Russia for us.

@Paul: I suspect that'll have to be a third-party development. Considering Google's major money-making product is AdSense, they a.) would be shooting themselves in the foot by blocking ads, or b.) be accused of anti-competitive behavior for blocking ads from other ad networks and not their own.

@Highsmith: I hate shopping for gifts, so for the past year I've pretty much only given [Kiva.org] gift certificates (except for the 4-year old nephew), and everyone so far has loved it, even my d-bag bro-in-law.

I'm quite happy with the new Sharpie writing Pens. Porous point ftw.

@shibathedog: There's something similar: [www.sodastreamusa.com]

@dadgetboy: While you're at it, throw a little bit of dry ice in a sealed container with sliced apples, oranges, pears, etc... carbonated fruit ftw!

Forget the iphone, I hung my Canon 400D from my windshield and drove across Washington state.

@hambonetoblerone: I have 6 of the sweetest rats you'll ever meet right next to me.

How can I make my towels hotel-scratchy without washing them a million times? I love scratchy towels.

If you close a window in Google Chrome (Im using the 4.0.blahblah dev channel version), you can reopen Chrome, go to the "launchpad" thing by opening a new tab, and down at the bottom it will say "Recently Closed" and tell you the number of tabs you just closed. If you click it, it will reopen all of those tabs as if…

I could have sworn that at some point Chrome would warn me about closing a window with multiple tabs, and that I eventually clicked a check box to turn that notification off.

@sirvs: You might consider, if its possible, using IMAP. If you have gmail or use email on a domain you can set up for Google Apps, you can use their IMAP function which works beautifully with Thunderbird.

She spoke at my wife's commencement at Smith in '08. I've always seriously adored her and I didn't know she was going to be there, so when they announced her name I almost peed with delight. As she was walking out of the quad with all the faculty and whatnot, she looked directly at me (well, my camera) from a few…

@detoys: Agreed. Not even to mention that someone going 52 in a 55 isn't exactly reason enough to pass. If you're behind the guy for an entire hour you'll save yourself 3 minutes, big whoop, but my guess is that those people who are annoyed by someone going 3mph under the speed limit probably intend on going a bit…

@palebluepixie: Another gun-totin' liberal checkin' in. I've managed to convert a number of my liberal friends, as well.