When it's used by soldiers it's called gun tape
When it's used in the film industry it's called gaffer tape
When it's used to fix ducts, or for absolutely anything else, it's called duct tape.

It was originally a Canadian drunkenness test. Basically if you could walk on the ice with or without the aid of a broom, you were considered okay to drive.

They tend to hide all the beer bottles and cigarettes for the televised variation, but usually, it's like bowling on ice. In reference to the amount of drinking and smoking involved, that is.
From a more technical perspective, it's more like drunken shuffleboard on ice.

I use Hootsuite to pre-program inconsequential tweets and facebook messages when I'm away. "Enjoying a cup of coffee with my wife on the back deck!" Meanwhile I'm 4 hours away.

Don't they normally get winter in Maryland? The dragon is pretty awesome, and good for showing off on the internet, but they're not scoring any geek cred from me because they don't know how to deal with snow.

1. Melting these piles with flame is going to take a lot longer than you think

2. If the temp is at or below freezing, then DON'T melt the snow. Because you're just going to turn the surrounding roads, walkways and driveways into ice rinks. If it's in your way, shovel it like an adult.

3. If it's above freezing and likely to stay that way, then break the piles up and spread them over a wider area. Let the sun do the work. Grab a beer.

4. Go tobogganing or something and learn to enjoy nature's gifts, sheesh.

I love the ads, but a bar of soap with minimal additives and scents is the ideal shower product for men. Something like ivory or similar. You can throw on some aftershave later if you need to smell like something.

You know what my wife likes? When I smell like I've been cooking dinner. Which is most nights.

knowing that innocent people would be willing to plunge their hands into boiling water presumes that the innocent person is a believer. So someone of a scientific or philosophical mind would NOT be willing to plunge their hand into the water, innocent or not. So the system fails.

Of course, in those eras, such people were probably guilty of heresy anyway, so it probably didn't bother the judges much

I grew up with milk in a bag. I thought it was weird when I found out that you couldn't get milk in a bag in other places. A jug seems so unweildy.

Also, it's much better for the environment. And we've had them for as long as I can remember, so at least as far bag as the mid-70s.

Another cool thing - you can slice open the top when the milk is done, rinse it out, and use it to wrap up cheese or other fridgy things like that.

Last summer I watched bizarre news coverage of (some) Americans ranting about how they don't want the government meddling in their health insurance, but this story (assuming it's real) suggests that it's far worse to let a private for-profit corporation decide who does and doesn't get health care.

Screw that, I'll keep my Canadian citizenship and the right to universal health care that comes with it, thanks. It's not without its faults, but nobody is denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions or anything else.

I know it's boring, but that's obviously something on the camera lens or a stitching error.

You only have to go one step West and the glitch is over top of the overhead signpost, not behind it as something in the sky would be.

HEre's the link to the less interesting view http://tinyurl.com/yb34563

Can I get an ESC key for the back door?

That's the kind of temperature where your molars just shatter and your fingernails fall off!

disgusting! But then, I don't like ketchup at the best of times

Most things you print at home don't need to be in colour. If you have to do something fancy in colour, email the file to a copy store or photolab and pick it up later. They have better equipment and printing the occasional colour item is cheaper with them than it is to maintain an inkjet at home.

I know some people have special colour printing requirements. Go ahead and buy yourself what you need!

I've always hated printers. This is why I won't own one any more at home.

But I have to use them occasionally at work. My coworkers are familiar with my rant about how Printers are the only technology that never improves, and how they have been maliciously designed to make people miserable.

I'd better email out this comic before they all send it to me.

@laurabumblebee The dog's panicked run breaks your heart, but the people's panicked run, no comment? :)