We have precisely the same problem in our dressing room. It is a converted bedroom, and the built-in closet wasn't big enough for all of my wife's shoes, much less her hats. Since we had taken ou...

All this works great when the cats are full-sized and healthy. But imagine a kitten falling into the toilet and dying. We had a cat who fell into the toilet as a kitten, and although ...

This is wonderful for those places where population density is not very high, and you can afford to own enough land to build them. But what about those higher-density population areas?...

It doesn't do you a damn bit of good if the gadget is eco-friendly, if it's a piece of crap. If no one buys it, then the whole thing was a waste in the first place. But taking devices...

I help manage the mail servers for the University where I work. We find that ~97% of all e-mail is spam. Fortunately, that's filtered at our appliances, and we don't have to deal with...

I love my Freitag. I bought one years ago, when we were on vacation in Barcelona. Now you're really making me wish I could buy another one of these (maybe a Rex this time, instead of ...

Laure -- I know your pain. We have three cats, and have recently installed hardwood flooring. We're not looking forward to the first major pee incident. My dad had a real problem. H...

One word -- ponoko. As in, ponoko.com . Go there, upload your design, have them make it for you and then ship it to you. If you can't give them a ...

Uh, that was supposed to be "... the post by palindrome." The system seems to have eaten my HTML. Blargh.

I was definitely thinking Austin myself, since it seems to be one of the most progressive and green/design-aware cities in the country. And I know a number of people here who should be more than a...

@boomer -- See my comments on the AT thread over at http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/security/slimline-k...

@mycatsownme -- The problem is that your fingers leave residue on the locks, and someone can come along and put a large Gummi Bear on the reader, and there will be enough residue left ...

The US federal government and the US military frequently use a combination door lock to secure doors in classified areas, and from what I can tell they are the

Oh, and if you really want to know how the "Bump Key" attack works, see http://www.toool.nl/bumping.pdf .

Kwikset locks are not "high security". If you want that, you're looking primarily at two companies -- Medeco and Mul-T-Lock, both of which are owned by Assa/Abloy, a Swiss multinational. The key ...

So you guys have finally discovered Emery & Cie, eh? We lived in Brussels for almost eight years, and one of our biggest regrets is that we didn't find out about them much sooner. As ...

I picked D myself, before I realized it was Eva Longoria. I would definitely have picked D if I had noticed that before. ;-) Seriously, it seems reasonably well organized and smallis...

If you're living with a man, or will have male guests over frequently enough, just keep it and put in a divider of some kind (pick a design you like and make sure it's solid plastic or powder or ex...

Hint: I'm a lifetime member of BGOP, and I've recently taken up blacksmithing again down here in Austin, TX. I'm going to be working as a volunteer Blacksmith's Apprentice at

From http://www.samuelyellin.com/history/ : Samuel Yellin, the 20th Century’s foremost artisan in iron, started his ...