So my wife and I just bought a new old car, a 1989 Volvo 240 DL. (Any Volvo owners in the house? Boy, does this thing drive smoothly!) We got it off Craigslist for a song, but there's some work to be done on it, of course. The only thing we've been able to do ourselves is tackle the old, crusty bumper stickers on the rear fender. This, I felt was important because, hey, though I do like Eric Clapton, he certainly is no God. Today's tips come from the site I used to remove them.... READ ON

So if you haven't noticed, gas prices have been inching their way down again. After yesterday's news that, potentially, billions of barrels of oil have been found deep below the Gulf of Mexico, I guess we can expect gas prices to relax even further. But just in case they don't, or, more importantly, if you feel like getting even more fuel for less, I bring you today's IQ-tip$, from an article that appeared in this past weekend's Parade magazine. (I ask you: what better... READ ON

Before I cough up the IQ-tip, I thought I'd pass this along first: According to an item over at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Drivers who cause a wreck while yakking on a cellphone will face a fine of up to $500 under a law that took effect Tuesday in DeKalb County. The law, likely the first of its kind in Georgia, sanctions drivers whose "improper" usage of a mobile phone was a "contributing factor" in a collision causing death, injury or damage. I have two things to say about that: First,... READ ON

I first moved to NYC in the summer of "˜91. The only thing anyone recycled in my neighborhood at the time were jokes about the Mets starting rotation. But that all changed quite quickly, thanks to the Mobro 4000, that famous barge that hauled trash from New York to Belize and back in 1987 before some genius in Brooklyn figured out how to incinerate it. The event captured the nation's attention and garbage became a hot issue in the late "˜80s and early "˜90s. In 1988, Resin... READ ON