Article on whether your plastic storage container is safe. Basically, if the recycle number is 1, 2, 4, or 5, you're better off than otherwise. But microwaving can still cause chemical leakage. Scary.

Yummy cereal. You need to buy it so the manufacturer gets motivated to more widely distribute it.

We condone reading here at DimeBrothers. Wanna read two books in two minutes? Read my lite book reviews for Sonic Boom by Gregg Easterbrook and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky!

CNN article on products with big markups.

The author of the most overrated book in the history of the world died recently.
The author: J.D. Salinger.
The book: The Catcher in the Rye.

Paul, would you like to comment on the following quote from this article:

"And Skype, which provides video chats for anyone with an Internet connection, lets us see and hear people who might be halfway across the world - for free.

"That's like the revolutionary thing that's happening right now," Levinson points out. "The idea that you can talk to someone and see their face and have a video conversation with them that doesn't cost anything - that would have been science fiction 10 years ago."

Extreme laptops ranging from ultra-light to super fast.

To anyone who says there's not stuff to fix in the health care system (I'm not just talking about coverage), please read this article, which sites all sorts of current wasteful health care spending.