virgilstar commented on Wikipanion Brings Wikipedia to Your iPhone or iPod touch

"Go to [en.wikipedia.7val.com] Works on any mobile web browser, and its free! Why is it that whenever iPhone folks figure out something that other smartphone users have been doing for years on Palm or Windows Mobile, they have to sh!t the bed over it?"

virgilstar commented on Make Meetings Suck Less

"Bring your Blackberry/iPhone/Treo, or whatever other smart device you use, and just pretend to be really busy looking up something important on the interwebs, when in fact you're doing the online crossword."

virgilstar commented on Grow A Green And Healthy Lawn With DIY Automatic Sprinklers

"Here in the northeast, it has been raining so much of late, I'm worried about waterlogging in the lawn, not drought."

virgilstar commented on Store Paint in Water Bottles with Marbles

"Agreed that quart-size paint cans are the way to go."

virgilstar commented on Make a Protective Surface from Cheap Mouse Pads

"Never been a fan of keeping things like workbenches in pristine condition."

virgilstar commented on Disc Eraser Renders Optical Media Unreadable

"Now if they could just find a way to stop AOL from sending the CDs in the mail in the first place :)"

virgilstar commented on How Do You Live Cheap in the Summer?

"@Kobayashi: How in the hell does anyone spend that much cash at Niagara falls?"

virgilstar commented on A Four-Question Business Plan to Jump-Start Your Inner Entrepreneur

"#5 - who's the competition and why are you better? If you don't consider this, and answer the second part from a truly objective viewpoint (like having your product run side-by-side in an independent test) you'll get hosed."

virgilstar commented on 6 Plants That Will Grow Almost Anywhere

"+1 on mint being invasive - ours crept over (under) the fence from next door, and took over an entire 8 x 2 flower bed in 2 seasons. For northern climates, rosemary is OK, but will die in the winter unless the roots are very very low (lots of mulch in the fall is good). Lamb's ear will grow anywhere, but also spreads too fast, like mint. Nasturtiums are also good flowers to grow anywhere - they taste good in salads too!"

virgilstar commented on Declutter Your Car With The Three-Bag Approach

"Man, some people are lazy pigs!"

virgilstar commented on Layered Desktop Wallpaper Organizes Your Icons

"@jsmorley: Nothing "lazy" about waiting to file things away until you know more about them."

virgilstar commented on Six "Junk" Foods That Aren't All That Bad

"Sorry but this article gets it wrong on several counts... 1) They say to buy the preservative-free versions of beef jerky, but there's actually a TON of evidence, and more every day, that the nitrates in preserved meat products have cardiovascular disease benefit (I know this because I run a lab that researches therapies for heart attack). 2) Pork rinds - the problem here, as with many other foods, is serving size."

virgilstar commented on Geek to Live: Choose (and remember) great passwords

"I classify sites in terms of their use... - One password (very secure and changed monthly) for banking and anything liked to my finances. - One for second-tier financial-linked logins (amazon and other commercial stuff, where no credit card info' is stored). - One for travel sites - One for work-related sites (scientific journal review logins) - One for blogs, forums, discussion sites. That way, I only have to remember 5 passwords, and if someone discovers one, they can't get on to the other classes of website."

virgilstar commented on Are You Living Beyond Your Means?

"15% here, BUT the big advantage is housing costs."

virgilstar commented on Go Laptop-Battery Only This Weekend

"+1 on the "this might work if my battery wasn't toast" response."

virgilstar commented on Top 10 Modern Life Survival Skills

"How about some REAL modern day survival skills... - How to steal gas (your sister site Jalopnik had a post on this last week). - How to deal with idiotic TSA staff at the airport? - How to jump the queue at an Apple store on iPhone release day? - How to grow your own food - How to vote!"

virgilstar commented on Get the Most Bang for Your Organic Buck

"#1 RULE when buying organic - if it's in a plastic container and has been shipped thousands of miles, don't bother!"

virgilstar commented on Total Commander Pocket Reins in Your Mobile Files

"++1 for WM coverage."