Essential Gear and Gadgets for SummerCut loose and hit the road with our favorite summer gadgets and gear.Summer is a time for rest and relaxation. It's also an opportunity to stock up on tech gadgets that will help you find your way out of town and have some fun on the way. These road-tested, summer approved products are designed to spice up your vacation activities. T-Mobile Garminfone - $199 with contract Genuinely innovative, even in light of recent iPhone announcements and raves about Sprint's new HTC Evo 4G, the T-Mobile Garminfone is a handy summer guidance system. As a full...

1. You have to drive a small car to get good fuel economy. Advanced technologies like hybrid drivetrains, diesel engines, direct fuel injection, turbocharging, advanced transmissions, low rolling resistance tires and aerodynamic designs are allowing standard-sized vehicles to be very fuel efficient. For the 2010 model year, five of the top ten most efficient vehicles are midsized cars, with a midsized car taking the top spot. 2. Manual transmissions always get better fuel economy than automatics. Advances in automatic transmissions have improved their efficiency to the point that the automatic version of a vehicle often gets the same or better...

Do Americans care about fuel economy as oil spills into the Gulf of Mexico and gasoline hovers around $3 a gallon? You bet they do, though they also have a fair number of misconceptions about how to squeeze a few more miles out of every drop. The Consumer Federation of America's (CFA) most recent survey says that if we had a 50-mile-per-gallon car fleet today, we'd save more oil than the entire proven reserves in the entire Gulf of Mexico. And people care about that. According to Jack Gillis, author of The Car Book and a CFA spokesman, 87 percent...

...You throw your back out on the toilet. You shave your ears. Your second wife calls your first wife "ma'am." You're genuinely excited when your prescriptions arrive in the mail. You read the obits in the newspaper to check the ages of the dead people. You read a newspaper. You're bummed out that the smokin' hot chick from Body Heat now looks like William Shatner in drag. You say "bummed out." Women your age have real breasts and artificial hips. You try to amuse the kid hooking up your Blu-ray player by telling him about Betamax. You pee in morse...

Sideways Smiley Face (1982-2010)Sideways Smiley Face died on March 14, 2010, surrounded by his loved ones. The cause of death was over-use. Born on a Computer Science on-line bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University, Mr. Face devoted his life to pointing out that the previous sentence was meant to be funny. He also gained worldwide recognition for his tireless efforts as a glib substitute for the words "I'm amused." His other interests included frowning and winking. He is survived by his children, Sideways Surprised Face, Sideways Glasses Face, Sideways Abraham Lincoln Face, Sideways Santa Claus Face, Sideways Pope Face,...

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This is what I love to hear! So we just did a lot of stuff on our house with regards to energy savings.  I told the folks we used that I would pass their names on as they did an excellent job for a fair price (and we shopped).  We had 3 energy audits done so I was pretty sure about what was needed at the end of all of the interviews, ladder climbing, etc. We chose Go Green (www.atticefficiency.com).  A guy named Timm came out and we went through each area, the problem ones we knew about and the suspected...

One of the biggest misnomers about the NFL is the phrase "final cuts." Nothing in the NFL is final. What looks like a done deal today is out the window tomorrow. Considering the Cowboys have trimmed the roster to 52 players, leaving one spot available, it's certain the team will make at least one more move this weekend. But among the notable cuts include wide receiver Isaiah Stanback and rookie defensive backs Mike Mickens and DeAngelo Smith. On this day, the waiver wire is filled with names - some of them noteworthy, but most of them are the less-heralded players....

1. Focus on energy efficiency You save money when you use the right bulbs and only turn them on when necessary. Most events don't have a media room full of dozens of televisions and computer monitors, and most venues don't, like the U.S. Open, consume 2,000 megawatt hours of electricity (the capacity of the Indian Point nuclear power plant a few miles north of New York City, incidentally) ... but all venues can benefit from energy conservation. 2. Stop using pesticides The U.S. Open doesn't have natural grass courts, so this isn't an issue, but millions of acres of...

Home Energy Audits The United States is currently the largest single consumer of energy. That's Right! The result is that the average homeowner now spends about $1,900 per year on energy. Continuous heating and air conditioning consumption account for half of home energy costs. With this consumption comes a tremendous amount of wasted energy. Our wasteful use of energy contributes to air pollution problems such as low-level ozone, smog, and global warming. The average family's carbon footprint is over 11,200 pounds of pollutants, which go directly into the atmosphere each year. The most direct and inexpensive route for home owners...