Jackson West wrote Looking at aggregate data of 3,000 email accounts over a three month period, researchers at Northwestern University say that emails are responded to randomly, but the volume of sent mail follows predictable patterns. Namely, late at night on the weekends , at 6:31 PM on November 20, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Jackson West wrote "Tell the noob to type rm -rf /," the troll types to his friend in IRC before you're a series of lulz after a friendly call for Linux tech support help turns into a formatted hard drive. If you don't , at 5:25 PM on November 20, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Jackson West wrote Whether you work quietly alone at home or in an office where the hum of fluorescent lights is the dominant soundtrack of your day, tune into one of the 31 ambient loops offered on the iSerenity web site. Listen to , at 4:08 PM on November 20, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Jackson West wrote If your manager tracks your time based on when you log in and out of your machine at work, then are you missing out on pay for the time you're waiting for your machine to boot up and shut down? , at 8:49 PM on November 19, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Jackson West wrote It's hump day and I was looking for a quick, fun project to try out. So I figured I try something easy I found over at the Make Magazine blog earlier this week—a set of speakers made from paper , at 8:25 PM on November 19, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Jackson West wrote If you feel shoppping for clothes is a chore and an expensive waste of time, think about using a personal shopper. Get rid of the mistaken idea you may have that personal shoppers are people employed by rich celebrities to , at 7:02 PM on November 19, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Jackson West wrote Windows only: If you are looking for ways to merge a bunch of MP3 files into one larger file, and don't like the command line solution I wrote about earlier this week, try Merge MP3. The application is tiny, the , at 6:33 PM on November 19, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Jackson West wrote In its third reincarnation since its debut in 1996 and redesign in 1998, web site Kvetch now harnesses the time-wasting powers of Twitter to call a farshtinken tokhis leker a schmuck behind their back. Users have to follow the service's , at 4:59 PM on November 19, 2008 more » [lifehacker]

Jackson West wrote If you're a power searcher, or other people think you are, and you're getting tired of constant requests for answers to questions that a quick Google search would provide, try Let me google that for you. Enter a search term, , at 4:18 PM on November 19, 2008 more » [lifehacker]