that’s standard over there. 

This guy I dated for about 6 months had a jar with his dog’s aborted fetuses on the bedside table. Also a handgun. No bed frame though of course.

The backseat of a Volkswagen?

Another one: I was in Ireland and hooked up with a hit dude. The next morning I went downstairs to tea and pastry served by his nan. I canned out of there ASAP. 

I am with Brad. PotPlayer is the best player I’ve found. If you use Windows Media Center as a video recorder, then PotPlayer is the only program that can play those files. The only thing I don’t like about it is I cannot stop it from playing another video after a previous video was played. For that reason I used VLC.

Are there specific reasons Lifehacker’s favorite video player switched from PotPlayer to VLC?

The problems with nuclear power have been and continue to be humans. Many of the accidents from Three Mile Island, to the SL1, to even Chernobyl have been thanks to humans either not following protocols designed by people significantly smarter than them, or not letting the systems work themselves out, and trying to…

7 ZIP is great

Definitely 7-Zip

Revo Uninstaller. Finds all the junk that programs leave behind when you uninstall them and deletes it for you. You should be a little wary when using it to uninstall programs with shared resources, but otherwise it’s a great tool.

So: if you were to mix the toxin from a boxed jellyfish, the toxin from a Cone snail, and the toxin from a Blue-ringed octopus, then you would cause cardiac standstill almost instantaneously, you would cause all the muscles in the face and body to contract, and you would cause all neural cessation to stop throughout…

I cannot be harmed by any of them

Gattica is a much more likely outcome then X-Men.

It’s also why people believe in creationism.

It is as unlikely as it would be for a random earthquake in a medieval village to re-arrange everything to produce a modern city.

I knew a young woman in the 90's who was double jointed—I don’t know if that qualifies as a mutant but she was hero to me.

If the accident had occurred in the United States, it would have been a vehicular manslaughter charge.

Reckless driving (or something). He paid a very small fine. Broderick was at fault, but it was still an accident. Apparently the family of the women who died were pretty upset about it.