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Few things you touch outside the bathroom will be as dirty as the sink faucet. But even so, I don't always wash my hands this way. I do in sensitive situations, though -- at the office where someone's always sick, when I'm preparing food, or when wounds / orifices are involved.

That's why I prefaced with "If your goal is to get clean." Sometimes it's just to satisfy a taboo. That's okay.

If your goal is to actually clean your hands, then it's not a waste. Proper hand-washing requires not touching anything dirty after you've cleaned up. And how did you turn the faucet on? With your dirty hands. So, wash, dry with a paper towel, turn faucet off with paper towel.

First chart's huge dropoff is an artifact of choosing a yrange of 21-41 instead of 0-100. It's a common deficit of charts created under motivated cognition.

Actually, the article mentioned that most of the stores would be okay with refunding unused tickets.

No, Evernote uses a freemium business model. The client is always free; you only have to pay if you store more than some X amount of data.

No, most CSAs these day will automatically add "www.yourdomain.com" to your certificate as a Subject Alternate Name.

Ah, but perhaps this is why it's so important gitmo detainees, et al, are not granted a trial?

I use No(t)Script to whitelist sites I trust. Noticing there was blocked JavaScript on a page of simple text would prejudice me against it.

He probably means he's using a simple window manager (twm, fvwm, etc) instead of the fancy everything-managers that include desktop functionality.

X alone doesn't provide that -- think back to Windows 3.1 days. You had a background, but not a desktop.