Good Reads

Should you buy a hybrid car? You have to analyze your motives, and crunch the numbers, too.

Tips for becoming an everyday environmentalist. It’s easier than you may think to get into these habits, once you know how important they can be. (via the Presurfer)

Stranded at the airport? Maybe you should try Rule 240. You could be flying out on time with another airline.

Research just in time for your Superbowl party! A science class tests the bacterial contamination of double-dipping. The results: yucky.

2007 Federal Tax Law Changes. It happens every year, just to keep us all on our toes.

10 Things You Can Do to Cheer Yourself Up. I’ll take the ice cream in bed.

Inside the Navy's Armed-Robot Labs. A gallery of the mechanized soldiers of the future. Like in the Terminator movies.

Does online match-making really work? I’ve not heard enough success stories to make me want to try it.

30 Things to Do to Keep From Getting Bored Out of Your Skull at Work.

America's Most Miserable Cities, according to Forbes. The people who choose to live there may have some disagreements with the criteria, since misery is a state of mind that we can often control.