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    07/14/09

    In reply to How To Keep Cool Without Going Broke This Summer
    Sean,



    What is that picture supposed to be? Because from where I sit, it looks like an incredibly obscure sidescrolling video game for the SEGA Genesis based on Fantasy Island.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/05/09

    In reply to AOL Tries to Extort Bogus Fees From Wall Street Journal Writer
    Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.
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    07/04/09

    In reply to AOL Tries to Extort Bogus Fees From Wall Street Journal Writer
    Where's Barak when you really need him? Sigh.
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    07/05/09

    @gzumwalt: He's trying to fix nonexistent global warming by cap and taxing the jobs out of the US and raising my electric bill by $200 a month.
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    Image of infmom infmom
    07/05/09

    @FireZingr: As opposed to the good old laissez-faire capitalists sending all the jobs out of the US and getting melamine from China in return?
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    Image of (Starman) Starman (Starman) Starman
    07/04/09

    In reply to AOL Tries to Extort Bogus Fees From Wall Street Journal Writer
    I really, really hated those crappy CDs back in the day. Nightmares... >_<
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    Image of infmom infmom
    07/05/09

    @AnalysisDialysis (and a MudkipNDS): Those things make dandy Christmas decorations. Tie them back to back (shiny side out) with some kind of decorative cord, and festoon your balcony or your yard. We've done that for years. What makes me laugh is that just about every year someone steals some of them off our trees out front. I chose the most ridiculously dead-end, no-chance CDs for the project, so what they're getting is trade show catalogs from the 90s, mis-burned data disks from my daughter's roommate's Masters project, AOL CDs, DOS based software from the DAK catalog, etc etc etc. I wonder what the thieves thought they were getting?
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    07/04/09

    In reply to AOL Tries to Extort Bogus Fees From Wall Street Journal Writer
    I was just wondering if AOL was still around, sounds like they're still up to their same old tricks.
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    07/04/09

    In reply to AOL Tries to Extort Bogus Fees From Wall Street Journal Writer
    I didn't realize AOL was still around. Have they moved to "high-speed" yet?
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    07/05/09

    @Anrkist: They're still around, although they pulled the plug on the Compuserve classic service at the end of June. Because that's what smart companies do, give their longest-term subscribers the summary heave-ho. Yeah.
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    07/04/09

    In reply to AOL Tries to Extort Bogus Fees From Wall Street Journal Writer
    Who would have guessed AOL would die not by a bang, but by a whimper.
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    07/04/09

    @jboy06: Just about everyone who threw away those stupid free trial discs they used to spam everyone with.
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    07/05/09

    @tehdorkz: In hind-sight, yes. In the latter years of their dial-up days, yup. But in the beginning they were the company that brought the internet to the masses - and we are all the poorer for it.
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    Image of infmom infmom
    07/05/09

    @tehdorkz: Who threw them away? Free disks are free disks. Of course, I'm old enough to have been carpet bombed by AOL floppy disks, which were reusable. CDs were a step backwards in this case. :)
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    07/05/09

    @AnonJr: AOL got its start as QuantumLink, which licensed proprietary software from PlayNet, a Commodore 64 only, 300 baud only, nighttime only network. That's where all the ridiculous limitations and feeble design choices came from, and nobody bothered to do much to change them.
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    07/04/09

    In reply to AOL Tries to Extort Bogus Fees From Wall Street Journal Writer
    They should have try and exploit someone working in Faux News.
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    Image of theirishcreme theirishcreme
    07/05/09

    @UltimateIdiot - Imperfection at Best: When I read that I wondered if you were somewhat kidding, since they're both owned by News Corp. However, it's my understanding that anyone who uses the phrase "Faux News" this many years after some clever guy thought of it is an idiot, as your name suggests, and you likely had no idea they were related.


    Keep riding the "don't think for yourself" bandwagon, though; it's working for you.

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    07/06/09

    @theirishcreme: Well said.
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    06/23/09

    In reply to How To Keep Cool Without Going Broke This Summer
    For the incredibly broke living in areas where ambient temperature tops 100 degrees there's always the ghetto air conditioner.


    Take a big metal bowl, like a mixing bowl, fill it with ice, some water and then shake some salt over it. Set that in front of a fan... enjoy.


    Also works with coolers.

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    06/23/09

    In reply to How To Keep Cool Without Going Broke This Summer
    Option F)


    Live in an apartment complex where electricity is lumped into rent.


    Bring on the waste!

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/23/09

    In reply to How To Keep Cool Without Going Broke This Summer
    I've found that cooling the house at night, and buttoning the bitch up tight during the day usually keeps it the coolest as the cold air is trapped inside the house rather than incoming warm air doing the same.


    Of course, this doesn't work in all climates...

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    06/23/09

    In reply to How To Keep Cool Without Going Broke This Summer
    One thing to note about installing ceiling fans is that you need to make sure the junction box is attached to a support. This may not be the case if you are using junction boxes for lights. If your house is already pre-wired for ceiling fans then it should be taken care of.
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    06/23/09

    @secretoftheeast: There's nothing funnier than a big crystal chandelier falling on the dining table during thanksgiving.
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    06/23/09

    In reply to How To Keep Cool Without Going Broke This Summer
    Yes, nothing says "cool" like fantasy island's diminutive mascot.
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    06/23/09

    @Sora57: Vive la Herve Villechaize!!
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    06/24/09

    @Ron-Mexico: Everytime I hear a stewardess talk about landing and "deplaning" I think of Herve. De plane! De plane!
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    06/23/09

    In reply to How To Keep Cool Without Going Broke This Summer
    I for one welcome the intense summer heat. You hear that FSM? Do your worst!
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    06/23/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Lieutenant Dan! You has magic cooling legs!
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    06/23/09

    In reply to How To Keep Cool Without Going Broke This Summer
    How about getting lawn chairs and spending your vacation in a super market?


    On a serious note wasn't it on Gizmodo where I saw some invention that sprays a fine mist of water over the inlet port of an air conditioning unit, it is supposed to lower the temperature of the air which makes the A/C unit work less.

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    06/23/09

    @My Asian Grandma: Work less as hard to cool the incoming air.
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    06/23/09

    @My Asian Grandma: Isn't that what the Cool-N-Save is in the last paragraph of the Central Air section?
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    06/23/09

    @My Asian Grandma: Nice Married with children refrence!
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    06/23/09

    @BeerManMike: Glad someone got it. That's my favorite episode, especially when they have that shopping spree battle.
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    06/23/09

    @BullLifter: I guess thats a reading FAIL for me.
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