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No photos of these things actually lit up? The vases in particular don't look all that impressive with the bright white background - I feel like we're missing the idea.

BTW I haven't had any issues with IEMs on planes from a pressure change = pain standpoint. Just that anything sitting in your ear canal for over a couple of hours is going to start to hurt. And there's ear wax to contend with.

Cool. But very, very weird.

Wouldn't using dropbox to share music files be illegal, technically? Just saying.

GERUNDGIRL.... sorry :-/

I like the 65% Outdoor Enthusiasts. Just goes to show being a geek doesn't have to mean being a shut-in or neglecting other interests/people.

At least check it out first... looks like they thought of that. From the FAQ:

Can the recipient take a screenshot of the contents of a Burn Note?
By default Burn Notes are created with the "Read out" display option which prevents the recipient from taking a screenshot of the entire note. It does this by breaking the note contents into short phrases and displaying them one at a time. It would require many precisely-timed screenshots to capture a note that uses this display option. Furthermore, the result would be a collection of screenshots which are not proveably related instead of a single coherent image.

The "Keyhole" display option also prevents screenshots of the entire note by only allowing the recipient to view a small portion of the note in the "keyhole" area. The mouse button must be held down to keep the keyhole open which makes taking screenshots require more finger coordination. Similar to the "Read out" option, the result would be a collection of screenshots instead of a single image. Additionally the "Keyhole" option prevents people who are physically near the recipient from easily reading the note contents.

To allow the recipient to take a screenshot of the note contents use the "Plain text" display option.

That very important fact, Tichrissie, gets left out because it's not true. People tend to think so because it's a saturated fat, and it USED to be thought that saturated fat clogs your arteries. But I can point you to any number of very recent meta-studies that review all the accumulated data and find no link whatsoever between sat fat and cardio-vascular disease. I'd venture to say most of us don't get enough of it because of health related fears. Sorry - bit of a pet peeve of mine.

If you're going to use it for frying, do NOT use the virgin kind unless you want whatever you're cooking to smell strongly of coconut. I did this with meatballs... never again.

paper clips? tape? that's what drawers are for. having just decluttered my desk recently, i reasoned that i probably don't even use pens/notepads frequently enough for them to find a permanent home on the desk surface.

This is a tech blog. At least point us in the direction of an app or something - like Sleep Cycle, that tries to wake you up when you're at the lightest stage of sleep. Not a miracle worker, but might help some and does have the ability to disable snooze...