I don't have a perfect answer for you, but I can tell you that I use Devonthink Pro as described here by Steven Berlin Johnson. In addition, I have a large "random" folder that consists mostly of snippets of text found in articles on the Internet.

This isn't your ideal solution—as you've noted, DTP is currently OS X only—but it does work pretty well for me, especially when I'm thinking about a general topic and need to find information on it. I even wrote a post about the similarities between Joyce's method of composition / finding material and how Johnson uses DTP.

When Clearwire did this to me, all I did was write a lousy blog post about it and tell my friends not to use their service. Seeing something more substantive is impressive.

The troubled WiMax provider (also known as Clearwire) has had many user complaints of throttling, over billing, overloaded towers and system congestion, and of misrepresentation of the service offerings in ads and by resellers,

I was one of them and wrote about the experience here. The short version: they don't advertise their bandwidth throttling and don't warn when they do throttle your bandwidth. My roommate and I thought they'd be a useful alternative to conventional ISPs, but they turn out not to be.

... if you, or the mods who gave you +3, had read the article, you'd know that statistical anomalies are brought to human attention for further investigation. These systems merely flag unusual patterns and say, "Hey, you might want to take a look at this."

The thing is, if you are TRULY concerned about the environment (and must drive a car), then you would buy a used car.

Ceteris paribus, you can't get an equivalent used car with the overall lifespan of the new car; in addition, if you buy a used car that someone else would've bought for the same or a slightly lower price, the person selling the car can buy whatever they want -- which might not be the green car you would've bought.

In addition, some people want the lower hassle factor of a new car, with the low probability of breakdowns and the high reliability that such a car entails.

Anyone interested in this subject should read Philip Greenspun's essay Women in Science. Ignore the borderline sexist stuff about women and pay attention to his comments about the structure of science in the United States and the opportunity costs of pursuing a career in science.

As he observes: "Adjusted for IQ, quantitative skills, and working hours, jobs in science are the lowest paid in the United States." And he's right. And then people wonder why more Americans don't go into science.

Unfortunately, I'm posting this a bit late in the game--there are 400 comments already--so it's not likely to get modded very far up, but those who actually care about science in the United States should read this.

The parent post should be modded up -- I came to this comment thread specifically to mention a Drobo. I don't actually have one because I haven't needed the storage, but they've gotten stellar reviews online. They also appear to scale up relatively easily from the cheap 4-drive Drobos to the bigger 8-drive ones.

One other thing you should consider, especially with a lot of people recommending dedicated servers, is power consumption: the bigger and heavier the box, the more you're going to pay in monthly power bills. This is one reason why using an old computer that's sitting around and stuffing 6 HDs into it might not be an optimal solution: if it costs you another $10 - $15 a month in power, you can relatively quickly spend your way out of whatever savings you've nominally achieved.

I believe the Unicomp EnduraPro is the same basic design as the Customizer/Space Saver keyboards, which are reviewed at the link, and those in turn are modern Model Ms.

For those of you seeking the One True Keyboard, take note.

The parent poster is basically correct but should include one other point: teachers and administrators are in the impossible position of trying to please (or at least placate) all parents, or at least all parents who want to fight whatever it is that the school district wants to do. You can see these kinds of problems with issues like evolution or sex ed; parent 1, Christian lunatic, doesn't want evolution taught, while parent 2, scientist, wants their child educated. Either way, the school will take heat.

It goes deeper than those obvious examples, of course, and the major fact/issue is that trying to please one constituent or set of constituents will anger another. Try to regulate the clothing girls wear to school? It might infringe on freedom of speech or expression. Don't regulate it? A parent will complain to the newspaper that girls are dressing in that dreaded way: "inappropriately." And the list goes on...

I'm with you. The Fall of Mexico from The Atlantic should be required reading for anyone interested in what's going in the country. One thing the article points out that makes me wary is the apparently growing integration of the military with the drug cartels--as a result, forcing Mexicans to register their phones might make Mexicans safer by making it easier to track phones that are being used for crime--or less safe as the military and police abuse the knowledge that such a plan brings with it.

One thing is clear: the country has some profound problems at the moment. And I'm not convinced this plan will solve them.

For those seeking more background on the general insanity of this story and "sexting" in general, see Slate.com's Textual Misconduct and the Economist on America's unjust sex laws: An ever harsher approach is doing more harm than good, but it is being copied around the world. The latter is tangentially related to the main issue but nonetheless useful.

One thing that does not seem to be talked about much is that all rare earth metals will be completely depleted, in any practically extractable reserves, within the next 50-100 years.

The problem with these kinds of projections is that they almost invariably forget to take technological change into account; Malthus predicted that humanity would starve to death because of food shortages in the late 18th Century, whale oil was unsustainable until the discovery of underground oil, and horse shit threatened the viability of cities until the development of the automobile (which then threatened cities through emissions), and various people have predicted peak oil at various times going back to the early 20th Century.

Now, we will eventually face peak oil, but that date keeps getting pushed further back due to advances in extraction technology. But by then hybrid/electric cars or other, unforeseen technology may have rendered the point moot. Rare earth metals might be completely depleted in 50 - 100 years, assuming that the ability to find and recover such metals doesn't improve and that recycling technology doesn't make original harvesting moot (imagine if someday all the technological garbage we've shipped to China and Africa makes those countries rich through the trace metals that become recoverable).

This isn't to argue that we should wantonly strip mine every metal deposit conceivable, or that just because false alarms sounded in the past doesn't mean true alarms won't sound in the future. But the fairly long history of worries about resource depletion, followed by the obviation of that resource or by the discovery of new deposits, means that I don't think most of us should be wildly worried about the possibility that rare earth metals will disappear in 50 years.

far right Jews is that most of the guys are in some form of learning program, so the women are often the primary breadwinners. This leads to the average Jewish woman on the far right having more education and job training than her husband.

This is somewhat true; the term for ultra Orthodox Jewish men is "sit and learn," and chiefly the Talmud. Rebecca Goldstein's novel The Mind-Body Problem discusses this phenomenon extensively.

It's not quite true to say that the average woman has more education, since most of their businesses are of the small, shop-keeper / mender / teacher types (and teacher doesn't mean "M.A. and in public schools." It means "high school education then teaching at the Yeshiva"); it would be more accurate to say that many women in that culture have a larger direct financial impact on the world.

I'm a "GAT" (meaning I teach an independent class) at the University of Arizona and ban laptops in my class for this reason and others, as explained here.