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I feel your pain. My wife just purchased $200 worth of "essential oils" to help our kids with their ADHD. I'm about ready to kill her. "Alternative medicine" is a HUGE money maker. A lot of these bogus "remedies" get sold right next to actual, effective treatments and, often at higher prices. People think "you get what you pay for" and take the garbage. It kills me to see people do this.

James Randi had a wonderful TED talk about homeopathy quite a few years back. It's very entertaining and he does a demonstration similar to the one you did for your wife. For all the other people out there who don't know a lot about homeopathy or why it's a problem, it's worth a watch.

A phone UI can't get more Fisher-Price than this one.

As a generalization, there's some truth to this, but it's not as clear cut as all that. Some vegetarians are so because they have personal qualms about eating animals or eat a vegetarian diet because of their religion. Those are the best vegetarians to study. They are not as prone to nutrition fads that encourage them to eat or drink 20x normal amounts of specific foods (e.g. http://www.drugstore.com/natures-answer-sambucus-black-elder-berry-extract-super-concentrated/qxp290049).

Between my Dr. Barman's Dental Woodsticks and my Reach Flosser I kinda doubt brushing everything at once will be that big an improvement. How big an imposition is the usual oral care rigmarole? Oh noes, the Phillips Sonicare takes a whopping two minutes to do its thing!

I have one. It's basically a bedroom issue vibrator with silicone plastic legs attached. It rotates around the pot stirring it. Great when you want to boil cream for an hour.
http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=354782&catid=184266&aid=338666&aparam=goobase_filler

Interesting rumour. I'm slightly interested to know what your basis for this assertion is

Half a dozen of my friends figured this out the hard way. Their doctors all traced it back to drug interactions between antibiotics in the -cycline family (minocycline, tetracycline, etc.) and their low-dose oral contraceptive pills. But since anecdotes aren't proof, I spent about five minutes Googling:

Reference 1
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Reference 3 (about 3/4 down the page)
Reference 4
Reference 5

Many sources I found note that it is difficult to conduct formal research in this area because women don't want to take antibiotics as part of a study and risk getting pregnant. It is difficult to prove what happens, but my friends have traced it back and told me what their doctors said. I hope sexually active readers hear this and protect themselves.

After typing "homeopathy" in the search box on drugstore.com, I found this.

It appears to be a homeopathic remedy for head lice. The remedy is administered on your head and is ingested by the lice. Immediately, I was intrigued. How would a homeopathic remedy kill head lice? What kind of homeopathic remedy would kill things?

I clicked on the "ingredients" tab which lists one active ingredient: sodium chloride (table salt) in a 1X dilution (10% dilution). In other words, brine. Not even an extremely dilute brine.

This brine costs $20 and comes with a free comb.

So I clicked on the "review" tab and found some satisfied customers:

[My daughter got lice, and] in one treatment - GOODBYE disgusting LICE! My daughter's head even had live lice in it along with nits (eggs) - and this product killed them all. Of course I had to pick out nits for a week...

This reviewer picked out nits from her daughter's hair, for a week straight. But she doesn't think that's what reduced the lice population. No. It was the brine that did it.

This is worth every penny.

Brine is worth every penny if you pay about 5 pennies for a gallon.

qz

That warning only appears on the special anti-viral Kleenex. The idea is that you should only use it to blow your nose, rather than eating the Kleenex in an attempt to fight off a viral infection, which wouldn't work and might be harmful.

If you look at the active ingredients (Citric Acid (7.51%) and Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (2.02%)) you'll notice that the average bottle of shampoo contains the exact same active ingredients.

So basically they're telling you not to eat soap, and that there is a Federal law out there somewhere that says "don't eat soap!"

Hopefully there isn't a law that says "don't eat paste or crayons" otherwise a good percentage of preschoolers are in violation.

Mmm, paste!

I agree that ink cartridges are too expensive and that gasoline is too cheap. But comparing the two is stupid. Printer ink is a complicated formulation, is used in very small quantities, and has to be packaged in a cartridge that is not only a container, but also a print head. Gasoline is just a commodity item, except for minor variations in additives.

Next, you'll be complaining that ordinary aspirin costs $242 a pound!

Mandatory reading on this subject: How to Lie with Statistics. A must read: the author an illustrator have a combined age of 85 years!

1. Find a new use for an old drug that costs 22 cents a pill.

2. Give it out one or two pills at a time.

3. ???

4. Profit

Or, tell them that AJAX is out, and LART is in. When they come asking for LART, you'll know what to do.

After my PowerBook's rubber feet fell off, I picked up some replacements at the local Ace Hardware. As far as keeping it cool, I've been keeping a few of these cold compresses in rotation from the freezer. It's the perfect size for a 12 inch laptop.

Does it get stains out of your web cache?? http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=726 45&catid=33268&trx=PLST-0-SRCH&trxp1=33268&trxp2=7 2645&trxp3=1&trxp4=0&btrx=BUY-PLST-0-SRCH

I agree, we could all use less of it.

When I was living with a friend of mine (he's married now and this was about three years or more ago) he had two Ionic Breeze filters. I can personally vouch that these things are totally useless. It was a two bedroom apartment and there was always dust, even with these things running 24/7. We would clean them and sure enough the blades inside were black with filth, but neither of us ever noticed a signifigant reduction in the dust in the apartment. Later after he got married and I got my own place (the one I have now) I bought a Honeywell from drugstore.com (you can see it here: http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=836 08&catid=46773&trx=GFI-0-PLP&trxp1=46773&trxp2=836 08&trxp3=1&trxp4=1&btrx=BUY-GFI-0-PLP). I had another Honeywell in a small boarding house room with two cats years before, and even with the two cats and the litter box and myself people always commented how they could not smell anything unpleasant. So it was because of this experience that I returned to the Honeywell brand. It is an awesome air purifier and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to seriously control the room dust. As for the computer dust problem I don't have much to share. I just keep my case and PC components clean and run the Honeywell as much as possible. Keeping myself and the apartment clean also helps. :) I want to thank all of you for the great tips. I'm going to get my tower up off the floor and I got a couple boxes of Swiffer pads so I'm going to try that filter idea. As for the vacuum I want to share a story on that...a friend of mine vacummed the inside of his case one time and then his computer wouldn't start. Come to find out he'd sucked up a couple jumpers off the mobo. So I would be leary of using a vacuum inside the case. - dc

What kind of bank is also in the enema business?
http://www.drugstore.com/qxp15093_333181_sespider/ fleet/enema_ready_to_use_saline_laxative.htm

Hello, my name is Robert Malda, some of you may know me as the founder of Slashdot, a popular nerd, geek, and loner website. After a hard day of doing nothing in my parent's basement, I like to relax in my parent's attic with my boyfriend Micheal. Sometimes things gets a little rough after we exchange some love and my bottom can get a little sore. That is why I use Anusol to remedity my sore anus. Anusol is not just for after sex use, it also helps me with my piles, and haemorrhoids. It makes sure my bum is always ready when Micheal is. So if you find that your in need of a quick and sure fix for your butt, Anusol is you one stop product.

Hello, my name is Robert Malda, some of you may know me as the founder of Slashdot, a popular nerd, geek, and loner website. After a hard day of doing nothing in my parent's basement, I like to relax in my parent's attic with my boyfriend Micheal. Sometimes things gets a little rough after we exchange some love and my bottom can get a little sore. That is why I use Anusol to remedity my sore anus. Anusol is not just for after sex use, it also helps me with my piles, and haemorrhoids. It makes sure my bum is always ready when Micheal is. So if you find that your in need of a quick and sure fix for your butt, Anusol is you one stop product.

In two colors: black ($1.29) and white ($1.99).

In two colors: black ($1.29) and white ($1.99).

No, the Mach3 Power has a vibrating handle. The Mach3 Turbo is a just stick of molded plastic.

--
Evan

No, the Mach3 Power has a vibrating handle. The Mach3 Turbo is a just stick of molded plastic.

--
Evan

this with icewater.

(didn't even have to link to a p0rn site to find one :)

Oh man, seeing those two words together brings back a bad memory. I had been drinking really heavily one night, see? (Well, heavily for a nerd). And I was feeling pretty drunk and I thought I was going to toss my cookies bad. But there were some really sexy girls at this party and I didn't want to leave. So in my drunken state I drank some of this cheap Pepto-Bismol knockoff called Pink Bismuth, thinking it would settle my tummy. So I go back out to the main room and party like nothing happened and I'm this cool guy who can hold his liquor. Anyhow, pow! the dancing and all just was too much and I started puking all over the place. I dropped to my knees and started puking my guts out all over the coffee table. And since I had drank the Pink Bismuth not too long ago, my puke was coming out pink. I was "bombarding" the coffee table with "Bismuth atoms" -- get it?

Needless to say, none of this impressed those babes (in a positive way, at least) and I went home alone once again...

Same way Gillette and Shick do. Give away the razor and sell people the blades. In software, sell the support (or the updates, or whatever).

Same way Gillette and Shick do. Give away the razor and sell people the blades. In software, sell the support (or the updates, or whatever).

The pain and numbness in your hand are definitely symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome or repetitive stress injury. I'm 20 and I suffer the same thing.

Fortunately, there are solutions to relieve the symptoms.

First, I use a wrist brace/splint from Futuro. You can buy one from drugstore.com, though I got mine from the pharmacy or health/wellness department of Zellers. They range in price from $16 to $25, depending on where you buy it from and what country you live in. Definitely well worth it, though.

As well, try and get outside more. I admit I'm not the best at this, but I do take the dog for regular walks every day and try and do other outdoor chores.

You could also try lifting some five pound dumb bells and doing regular exercises for your wrists that way.

Hope this helps,
Doug

The pain and numbness in your hand are definitely symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome or repetitive stress injury. I'm 20 and I suffer the same thing.

Fortunately, there are solutions to relieve the symptoms.

First, I use a wrist brace/splint from Futuro. You can buy one from drugstore.com, though I got mine from the pharmacy or health/wellness department of Zellers. They range in price from $16 to $25, depending on where you buy it from and what country you live in. Definitely well worth it, though.

As well, try and get outside more. I admit I'm not the best at this, but I do take the dog for regular walks every day and try and do other outdoor chores.

You could also try lifting some five pound dumb bells and doing regular exercises for your wrists that way.

Hope this helps,
Doug

Really? What is your indication they don't? I'm unaware of any copyrights/patents to the Sun Java code outside of Sun.

And yeah, if IBM is actually prodding Sun to open up Java source while they actually own the rights that prevent Sun from doing so, and Sun can't even mention that because of the license, that would be somewhat ironic, no? I guess some vestiges of the old IBM live on...

Remember to wrap your whole head to get full protection.

And no one will know you're using it!

1) Office and suite are both common terms. That's like saying it is new and original if someone puts a collar on a dog and sells it as "Dog Collar". The two terms would not have been used together before the invention of the "dog collar", but that doesn't make "Dog Collar" an innovative name.

2) My father worked at Kimberly Clark (coincidentally enough, in the diaper plant in Memphis). I've heard it all hundreds of times. Trust me on the Kleenex thing. Huggies are in the Kleenex line. However, unlike Microsoft, K-C doesn't just throw any generic word out as the title of it's products. And therefore acheives good brand recognition. It would dilute the brand name for them to make a big deal about Huggies actually being "Kimberly Clark Kleenex Huggies Diapers". And since they chose good brand names for their products, they don't have to.

I am not the one who tried to compare "Kleenex" to "office suite". They are not at all the same.

Office suite and some of the Kleenex line of products

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Toilet breaks? To enjoy the full experience of a non-stop 10-hour immersion, *real* LOTR fans will prefer this solution

The Hitachi Magic Wand is, of course, "the cadillac of vibrators". Go Hitachi!

Self recharging? Better than that! If you factor in the vibrations of the women themselves you could theoretically power a small city.

Don't know why parent was modded as troll, though. Offtopic maybe, but really not trolling. Chicks dig vibrators...ever see that Sex in the City episode about the rabbit vibrator one of the women gets addicted to? Funnily enough, drugstore.com sells it. I like the admonition, "Do not use on unexplained calf pain". Yeah, I don't think that's where it's going to be used...

buy some now

Its already been done. styptic penci

AllTheWeb saves the day. Semicid is a vaginal contraceptive that's chalk full of Nonoxynol-9 to kill all those little swimmers dead. It's been around since 1973, so it shoulda been around when you went to college.

$39.99 Remington Paraffin Wax Hand Spa (so her fingers don't look like she writes code all day :)

$50.00 DreamTime Microwavable Foot Cozys (one of the ways to a woman's heart is through her feet - again, I bet guys would like these too even though they'd probably never actually buy them for themselves)

$20 gift certificate to Bath & Body Works (sometimes a gift certificate is better than guessing what her favorite scent is)

$49.99 Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II

$40 1 lb. of Godiva chocolates(if you're gonna do chocolate, do it right...Godiva really does taste better :)

$39.99 Remington Paraffin Wax Hand Spa (so her fingers don't look like she writes code all day :)

$50.00 DreamTime Microwavable Foot Cozys (one of the ways to a woman's heart is through her feet - again, I bet guys would like these too even though they'd probably never actually buy them for themselves)

$20 gift certificate to Bath & Body Works (sometimes a gift certificate is better than guessing what her favorite scent is)

$49.99 Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II

$40 1 lb. of Godiva chocolates(if you're gonna do chocolate, do it right...Godiva really does taste better :)

Groceries from PeaPod: $80

Shampoo from DrugStore.com: $4

Call Girls from an Online Pimp: $800

Pulling off this lame Publicity Stunt: Priceless