Not sure why this is "Neat"worthy... I see this on the train in Chicago every weekday of my life.

Note how the iPad guy is keeping a low profile when toting his $500+ device in public. Then the Kindle in the middle... Then the cheap newspaper flying highest.

I'm still weighting for better spell check.

Excellent! Names were only an issue when communicating with others... My sister and I would ask eachother to "keep your eyes open for a flat 4-way grey", or a "1 by 6 thick blue."

Here's a question -- Why do people defend their "side" on this issue to the death? Do we get *angry* when someone has a different preference in music, fashion, art, career choice, furniture, hobbies, food, etc...?

I'm guessing that software and any OS has its inherent anger-inducing frustrations, and that an average non-linnux-brained user has to go through a process of learning how to cope with shortcomings, to the point of embracing their chosen OS.

Example:
1. You learn at some point early on that that tiny square with the X in it in the top right corner of the screen closes your program. Why? Because they told you so. A little annoyed? Yes, but now I know, and thank goodness I don't have to go through that again.

2. You open an application on the Mac, and when someone tells you to click the red button on the top left instead of the box with the X in the top right, it seems "wrong." When you do so, and the application hasn't quit (just the window has closed), cue annoyance.

Live and let live...

Funny! Hopefully this will somehow reignite interest in Sagan's masterpiece of television COSMOS...

Someone get on the horn to Lucasfilm licensing QUICK! This has to be mass-produced ASAP.

That, and a carbonite bed for adults.

I live in Chicago. We had like 2-3 months straight this year where there were inches and inches of snow & ice on the ground, and below- 30 degree temps. It sucked.

We've got a lot of great stuff too & it is a great city other than the annoying winters... But better than Paris? Pshh.

I guess you don't have to spell correctly to post a cute/funny video. Googling a word you aren’t sure how to spell is far easier than the process of adding titles to a video, I’d think

That being said-- Everyone makes mistakes. Even squirrels!

Here it is:

-- Homeowners are less social, on average, than renters -- spending less time with friends, neighbors, co-workers

-- Homeowners spend more time on household chores

-- Renters have more sex and less marital dischord and cope better with parenting than homeowners do

(Facts from the book "Home Buying for Dummies" by Eric Tyson and Ray Brown.)

I read somewhere once that studies show that renters have hap sex with their partners than home owners

I've been renting an apartment in a beautiful two flat for the last ten years. Our landlords are the nicest people, and are very responsible, and we now consider them friends as well as business partners. We have never had any problems other than living without a new stove for 2 days, and we have one other set of neighbors that we hardly see/hear.

We've been paying reasonable rent, and every morning in the winter that it snows, someone else shovels our walk for free. We even have a whole garden in the back that we never touched (not that into gardening), and plenty of space to barbecue.

Every one of my friends and family members who owns a home has had to shell out huge amounts of money on HOME REPAIRS over the last 10 years. Home repairs can be a domino effect... My one friend has had to fix his drainage system, then the foundation started cracking, then the roof started coming undone. My sister bought her house not realizing there was a sewage issue that she ended up spending 10's of thousands of dollars on. Another friend's heat conked out in below zero weather, and it couldn't be fixed for several weeks because of a crooked contractor, then costly repairs, then a lawsuit.

And meanwhile there's my wife and I. Sitting on our back porch, watching the backyard grass grow, knowing that we won't have to cut it.

I wonder if she spends 25 cents in gas to drive out of her way to save 10 cents on toilet paper…

This story has been packaged by the media to be about the recession, when really it’s just about a certain personality type. The news media will grub and grab at any story that appears to pertain to a “hot” issue, then present it as such. Let’s all go out and buy vinegar and make our own cleaning supplies! Panic! Panic! No wonder consumer confidence levels are down.

As for this type of person, if they aren’t hurting anyone (including themselves), it can be a personality quirk that is just exremely irritating for everyone around them. I’m all for not being wasteful (and we as a society are far too wasteful), but please don’t water down my liquid soap. It’s just going to make me use more.

Zorgo be happy to take picture with family. Zorgo love to have *you* for dinner!

I agree, being honest is the key, but...

If you think the brutal truth will hurt a person, think first. If you say something "truthful" and they are hurt, talk about it.

Bottom line: Communication = essential.

Yeah... It's called “fiction” for a reason. In Star Wars, for example, how do we know that words like "laser" and "light speed" don't mean something else to these people? Perhaps they’re slang words…?

...And for that matter, how about the fact that many alien and human races in galaxies far, far away speak ENGLISH? (or worse, English with quasi-Jamaican accents).

There's a lot of "unrealism" going on in filmed entertainment, and you just have to accept it all to enjoy it. Otherwise, the only enjoyment you’ll get from watching sci-fi will be from having these nerdly debates with your fellow nerds.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that, if that makes you a happy. Just don’t expect to be invited back to any parties at my house.

Take it from a person who has lived in a tiny apartment for 5+ years-- less vacuuming, but you will inevitably acquire new stuff, so you add a new chore to your monthly routine: moving the stuff around, making trips to salvation army to drop off old stuff to make room, etc... It never ends!