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There are entire sites dedicated to everyday carry (EDC) with some sites focused on flashlights, knives, Atwood tools, etc. You can spend a lot of time and money on EDC "research" :-)

Front pocket (in approx. order of use)

• Cell phone with $20 behind cover
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• Burt's Bees lip balm with a keyring cap
• Victorinox Swiss Army Manager Pocket Knife w/ toothpick on a McGizmo Nano clip (20mm #1)
• Olight i3S EOS LED flaslight with lithium AAA battery
• some inch-wide Gorilla Tape and elecrical tape wrapped around a black Sharpie Mini
• 64 GB USB 3.0 flash drive (Kanguru for write-protect switch; FlashBlu30 but considering SS3) on split ring and metal #0 Nite Ize S-biner
• silicon ear plugs and half a Q-tip in a key fob (approx. same diamater as lip balm, slightly shorter)
• $20 bill wrapped around BIC Mini lighter on a Keeep-It holder
• all connected with other split rings and clips on an older Munroe Mega Dangler
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Other front pocket (in approx order of use)

• white LED Photon freedom with car keys on the snap ring
• True Utility TU245 key shackle with 3 keys, #2 Phillips key, grocery card, and Uncle Bill's Sliver Gripper Tweezer
• house key cut on green KeyLights on clip that came with True Utility key shackle
• $20 wrapped around a 0.5 oz (15 mL) Purell hand sanitizer in jelly wrap holder
• all connected with a split ring
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• leather billfold with slots for six cards; cash $1s/5s/10s/20s, bandaids, a hair pin, and Plop Boot Manager on a credit-card sized CD-R
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Shirt pocket--you *always* have a shirt pocket, right?

• Zebra Clip-On four-color pen + 0.5 mm pencil
• Monteverde Stylus Tool Pen with ruler, level, and screwdriver
• a handkercheif wrapped around a small (2.5" x 4") Moleskine book

You're doing it wrong. The first thing I did when I got mine was pick up one of these.

but a light that can burn shit?

Only if you put the shit right up against the light.

A 300 watt halogen bulb puts out almost 6000 lumens, much more powerful than this light. You can start a fire with one, but not across the room or anything. You have to get the combustibles right up against it. (Which is why the newer floor lamps using this sort of bulb have a safety cage.)

There are many things in your house more dangerous than this super-bright flashlight. Should they all have labels? The problem is that when everything has a warning label, the chatter drowns out the important warnings.

This might even better http://www.acehardware.com/sm-ace-6-outlet-power-s trip-with-timer-sp-sjt43-0--pi-1443544.html
No idea how much power it draws but,it sure makes it easy.
You could just setup one or two charging stations around the house and leave all those little "wall warts" plugged in and ready to go but,turned off most of the day.

Build a better mouse trap . . .and the world will ignore you.

This is literally true. The Victor company actually did invent a better mousetrap, designed so that you can't snap your fingers while setting it. It isn't very strongly marketted though, and mindshare for the traditional style of mousetrap is so strong that most people still use old style traps.

a heat pump is about 2.5 times more efficient for heating your house than just running electricity through resistive coils (as with a space heater, for example).

...or with a baseboard heating system, as I've got. Yes, this is essentially a space heater. Maybe it's just my locale (New England), but every house I've seen with electric heat uses these, one per room.

However, I will grant your point that I am an idiot. =) I'd never heard of household heat pumps before, but in retrospect the concept should've been obvious. I am enlightened... and now I want one.

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Dum de dum.

Ajax is a cleanser. Tide is a clothes washing detergent.
I beg to differ.

Posted AC because this is completely pointless.

Or how about the abusive enforcement of trademarks against people on the 'net who are not even doing COMMERCE, much less doing so in a confusing way? For example, randomhouse.org, various lawsuits over [company name]sucks.com, etc. I'm sure you can think of many domains whose freedom of speech has been squashed under the current internet governance.

The U.S. hasn't been great on human rights, either---internment camps during WWII, Guantanamo Bay, prisoner abuse in Iraq, frequent reports of secret American torture locations in eastern Europe, etc. And the U.S. maintains strong relations with other countries who have repeatedly violated basic human rights, including China, several countries in the Persian Gulf, Singapore, and so on. The U.S. government may be better than some countries in terms of its human rights record, but it is by no means the paragon of virtue that you make it out to be.

The reality of the matter is, as long as it is possible or practical for government to interfere in the freedom grantedd to us by the Internet, they will try to do so. The U.S. government is no different, and anybody who says otherwise has been living under a rock for at least the last five years.

We need to design a replacement for the domain name system based on a combination of DNS service discovery and in-browser filters. You give your site a name, and if there are multiple sites with the same name, you see a browser-generated disambiguation page that allows you to filter the request further. Is that Ace (hardware) or Ace (playing cards)?

The notion of static DNS is so last century.

Use one of these. No, you don't have to open the case, although you may need to work a little harder if you don't.

More seriously, you can use one of these.

Need a dual core, ddr-2 compatible 64 bit processor with that skil saw?

Do what I did on an Edmonton-Vancouver flight the week before 9/11... put the swiss army knife (mine is kind of big) in an oversized camera pouch along with your 35mm. The x-ray techs, geniuses they are, tend to think a metal mass underneath thie camera is a tripod outrigger, and leave it alone.

I always thought they used this

Hell if you got a Gardena Handrasenmaher the thing costs as much as a Segway and I'll be damned if I would let some fool step on it. :)

Two words: caulk remover.

Congratulations, joo r 0wn3d for under $5.00

Oh..

Ace's Hardware...

Whatever...

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Oh..

Ace's Hardware...

Whatever...

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1. Cole Hardware
2. Pro Hardware
3. Ace Hardware
4. Restoration Hardware

a catspaw.

who couldn't figure out at first why Ace Hardware put up information about a new webserver?