Star Wars Weekends have been a huge hit at the Disney theme parks, and to celebrate the desecration of my childhood comes a limited edition of ridiculous looking Disney characters dressed as Star Wars ones. There's Don Solo in carbonite, a lanky Goofbacca, Mick Skywalker, and highly inappropriate Sl...

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Yesterday, bassist and emergent finance pundit Duff McKagan told Rolling Stone that his somewhat-supergroup Velvet Revolver was "weeks away" from announcing its new singer, after a lengthy search that attracted demos from some 400 hopefuls who were, for whatever reason, interested in being the next ...

This month, in honor of St. Hallmark’s Valentine’s day, it’s a special theme version of Musical Moments To Die For. Love songs! Nothing but love songs! Well, that’s not exactly right: not so much love songs, but songs about love, which is a totally different head. Totally. Ho...

The trackpad on Jim's Dell laptop hasn't worked since September despite a new motherboard, new hard drive, and four replacement trackpads. One Dell technician managed to dent the laptop's speaker grill. Another, dispatched to replace the hard drive, brought a drive that was slower than the model in ...

Q: DEAR TIM: I'm about to start a window replacement project. My husband wants vinyl windows because of the easy maintenance, but I'm not a big fan. The number of choices is making it hard for me to decide which kind of windows to install. What are the best replacement windows?...

After the touchpad mouse failure (overuse and abuse) and the keyboard failure (accidental food spillovers), one of the most common failures in a laptop is the hard disk failure. A quick survey using Google tells us that there are nearly a million results for laptop hard disk, about a half million ea...

The battery in Apple’s recently revamped 17″ MacBook Pro, incase you somehow missed it, is amazing. With a single charge it can power the monster notebook for approximately eight hours while using the NVIDIA 9400M graphics processor or approximately seven hours while the 9600M GT chip is...

The image replacement technique about which we pontificated at length yesterday has now been applied to the entry rating buttons (not the comment ratings... yet). If you still haven’t fully recovered from the annual festivities and have no idea what we’re talking about, these are the rat...

Take your time - you’ve got about 36 hours Cheap cement is pouring into the US, and it’s creating headaches for Cemex, the largest US producer. Don’t feel sorry for them though - they’ve been pushing through price increases in the midst of plummeting construction. I wonder ho...