DISQUS

Hmmm. A Wein peanut slave costs $20. It is a peanut-sized device designed to trigger a secondary flash when a primary flash fires. It shouldn't be very hard to adapt one to a 1/8" jack for the electronic remote socket of many cameras. The total shouldn't cost more than $50 if you have someone handy with electronics make it for you.

I bought a rechargeable electric toothbrush for $25 last week. They are not much more expensive than battery-powered ones, and much better for the environment as you don't have to discard disposable batteries.

I read your articles through RSS. I wish there were some way to suppress the lame me-too echoes in Gizmodo, but since they don't have the basic courtesy to credit you, I can't filter them out automatically in my aggregator.

Too many preferences are actually a sign of poor design. The root cause of the problem is endemic lack of taste among Microsoft product managers. Why is it that I have to spend half a day changing brain-dead default settings in XP, from the day-glo molten lego set color scheme, to shutting down all sounds, to disabling the oh-so-helpful "personalized menus", disabling all the CPU-sucking animation effects that slow you down, and so on and on and on?

Quoting from the eternal wisdom of "The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy":

Quote from the book:

The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes," [...]

Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopaedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."

Referring to the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, their biggest problem is reported to be that "[o]ne is blinded to the fundamental uselessness of their products by the sense of achievement one feels in getting them to work at all. In other words, their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.