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"Thanks to a wide variety of mature commodity hardware choices, plus infinitely and perpetually updated open source router firmware, I'm happy to report that now everyone can have …

I'm in the same boat. Right now I drink diet soda with aspartame (max 2 cans per day) but I'm not convinced it is without risk. I try to avoid HFCS as well as limit my sugar intake…

You don't have to go down to the bottom of the page - you can still hover over the link and still click it, even though it's not blue and underlined.

True enough but for some reason a superscript is less distracting to me than a blue link. It's almost a compulsion for me to hover over each inline link to see where it goes. Hopef…

This is a great improvement. Should definitely help with sites like TechCrunch where they litter their articles with about 5,000 links to previous articles they've written.

Agree. If she doesn't use HP products, why does she care what they charge? That Excel-generated graph is terrible too. Like others, I bought a cheap wireless Brother B&W laser for …

It amazes me that I read through all of these comments and didn't see one mention of the Zune software. Yes, it's Windows only. Yes, it only syncs with Zunes. BUT, it offers a far …

And I'm (im)patiently waiting for it to pop.

Wow. I live in the Midwest so housing is dirt cheap compared to other places, but half a million dollars for ANY house seems insane to me, let alone this "small" one he's talking a…

Live Maps > Google Maps Birds Eye View is amazing.

This is exactly it. I am certainly technical enough to run Linux (and have in the past) but there's no real good compelling reason for me to use it. I don't get malware on Windows …

Absolutely. I like listening to people talk when I'm interested in what they're saying and want to communicate with them, but when someone (like a co-worker) babbles on about their…