The BSOD message can't be more infuriating than what Macs say when they reboot after a kernel panic: "You shut down your computer because of a problem." It always makes me want to shout "YOU shut YOURSELF down due to a problem YOU caused!"

Surely Mainway Toys will find a way to keep marketing tiny, super-powerful magnets.

Citibank offers a "Virtual Account Number" service for their credit cards (Mastercard). It works fairly well. You can do one-shot purchases, or recurring purchases with the same merchant only, or even cap the total you're willing to spend via a virtual number over a number of months.

They have a web interface, but you can also download a Java applet that can generate numbers and fill in purchase forms for you.

DIVX may be dead, but its earth-destroying relative is being sold at stationery stores, airport newsstands and truck stops across the US.

This has many applications, such as generating easy-to-remember passwords for porn sites.

Yeah, I looked at my keyboard and it's the little-used keys that are the grimiest. The spacebar is pretty bad in the middle where I never hit it, and the windows key is significantly discolored, but the worst key is actually the '1' on the number pad.

In fact, SkyOne viewers only have 2 episodes left to watch from the first season. The first season order was for 13 episodes. Episode 12 is showing next Monday. Check out TV Tome.