@TheFu: Let me break down your questions into sections with some links: Read more

@fotd_spectacular: Hardware is pretty simple... the living room has a dual-core computer I built about a year and a half ago... it's a bit over kill for the job so in the next year I'll likely give the computer to my daughter and replace it with a nettop. The bedroom machine is a repurposed netbook and the basement… Read more

@IMoriarty: I love XBMC. Here's the setup in my house: Read more

@grizzlyadams001: First, Plex is fork of the XBMC code. Second the fork didn't occur, formally, until halfway through 2008 and the Hive Five was in late 2008. At that point nobody knew about or was even paying attention to Plex. People didn't really start paying attention to Plex until 2009 when Hulu was giving Boxee… Read more

@rphoto: I installed it over one of my test copies just now and everything was preserved. It appears to preserve everything just fine. Read more

@jercb123: Whoops. Got Lens Baby on the brain (was looking on eBay for a used model and thinking about making one myself). Read more

@saveyoursanity: I'm pretty sure nobody is doing this project with a first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Relax. Read more

@ChuckSteiner: No spatter that I noticed. Because it cooks really slowly the fat doesn't pop and splatter like it does in the skillet. Read more

@godawgs7: Oh man, when we ran out of potatoes we used some left over PVC to make "ice slugs". They would punch through sheets of plywood like it was paper. Read more

@tXm: That's hilarious. I recognized the shape immediately, I can't believe they're actually selling it with the old "for your aching muscles" bit. Read more

@AyUaxe: What is this humid winter you speak of? ;-) Read more

@Dan122186: You'll find more than one XBMC remote for Android. My favorite (because it supports multiple XBMC units and I have multiple units to manage throughout the house) is [code.google.com] Read more

@soylentseth: That was the first thing I thought of... what a sweet XBMC remote it would be. Read more

@cottonwin: Why not just say "I don't care." You'll have to say one less word and you won't have to qualify your statement as "honest" (which implies some statements are not). Read more

@PrairieMoon: Well played. Read more

@y3n0: Definitely Facebook's business paradigm... one which they are somewhat cavalier assholes about. Read more

@pahalial: In the sense that you give up some of your brain power to look at ads and occasionally click on them, yes. We certainly don't collect mountains of personal data, unless of course your random Lifehacker commenter's name really is Nergasm9000. Read more

@ThePhysician: Yeah it looks like you get some extra magic for running it in Linux ;-) I'll have to try out the extension mentioned further down this comment thread. Read more

@ThePhysician: Chrome has this built in? I was unable to replication the right-click + scroll tab changing. Is it a different combo? All the search results seem to point towards people requesting the feature. Read more

At our house we're slowly switching over to using signature wrapping paper (signature in the sense that gifts from us are readily identifiable because of it, just like big department stores have a signature color). Read more