The videos have been privatized. Hopefully, because they were badly made and they're going to reupload in the future.

Though the landscape of readers have changed a lot. I liked my Google Reader but I eventually switched to Feedly online and Palabre on mobile. Now I have Slashdot and some blogs on my phone in Palabre via Feedly, software that has been abandoned for several years, that constantly crashes, that I'm constantly in fear that it will finally break, that is still the best choice I found for TTS on mobile; and Feeder.co online. For some reason, it's so hard to find readers with basic features.

As a game developer, yeah. If I get an audio asset in the game, I'm gonna make it ogg if it isn't because that's what Unity likes the most.

This is probably the result of Kyle Hill's video. I highly recommend his Half Life Histories series.

Also, just switch to Colemak.

I switched to Colemak about a year ago. It's much better than QWERTY. And in the standard Colemak setup, Caps Lock is replaced with another Backspace key. That's useful.

Yeah...

If your wife doesn't need intensive gaming or complicated environments and only uses a laptop for web browsing, office work or other rudimentary tasks then I would also say go for Linux to save money. You can buy a basic laptop for pittance or, if she doesn't mind the design, just install it on the mac.

I still choose windows because I'm a hardcore gamer and on that front, Linux still disappoints me.
If you want to buy a new windows laptop, here's what I did. First look at a competent company, as far as construction is concerned. Then look at the work space the laptop offers and then match specs which, as far as I can see, are not different from the mac.

I got a Toshiba Satellite L500 which is big and wide with a full keyboard, from a company that built my wife's still going eight year old machine. It has a decent CPU, GPU combo that can even run Crysis well. Perfect for my gaming needs.

If you only want one for office work, I'd go with a Lenovo laptop which are usually smaller, has a very comfortable design for long periods of work (I just love the joystick, they have) and they are also a very competent company (my brother has one which he has worked on for several years now). You don't need a very powerful CPU so just pick one of the Intel E brand or an AMD Athlon. And unless some high def video is involved, pretty much any GPU would do. I wouldn't go for less than 2GB of memory either way. And you might want to try breaking a 500GB HD in half and make it dual boot with Linux.

Inspired by the XKCD strip: http://eran.geek.co.il/wp/archives/1975

Yeah, I like to hate Microsoft just like everyone else but I'm still a Windows user (Mostly for the games compatibility). And I have still not seen a better solution for writing down lecture notes than the Word/MathType combination. Yes, they are both proprietary software (Which I get free through the university. :) ) but I've been using them for the past two years and I'm faster than the lecturer. Yes, I write as fast as the lecturer speaks and faster than he/she can write themselves.
MathType is quite comprehensive, I don't even use half of what it offers myself, and the whole catch is shortcut keys configuration. You can set up combinations for 'macro' equations (Like Limits) and with two presses of a button call down a set that will take other students a few seconds to put down.
The only problem I found with it so far is a symbol or two it doesn't have (Like the under-tilde not-equal sign) and you have to build yourself and the fact that when you write integrals, the lecturer does the limits first but you have to add them last.

For sketches, graphs and diagrams there is no comfortable solution I found. I either draw them in Word shapes with a pen-mouse, plot the graphs with Mathematica (Best analytical math tool I found) and copy over or just photograph the board and paste the image into my document.

Trust me, I've been doing it for two years. :)

I pay for the ticket to get in. I usually stay out of the theater for as long as possible but those that sit there from the very first minutes are subjected to numerous advertisements, and not just cool new trailers. That is advertising, in a product I payed for. And that is without discussing in-movie ads, sponsorships and product placements.

I have nothing against in-game advertising, mostly because I unconsciously censor them from perception, but also because they can add some realism, as much as I hate to admit it. I mean, when I drive around in [insert racing game here] and I see billboards and adverts, or if there are posters on the edges of football fields, it seems very realistic to me. And it's a reasonable tactic for a publisher to take.

But if it becomes excessive, if the ads are up in my face, interrupting my game and preventing my progress, then I want the price slashed. If I'm still playing this game altogether.

Right, keeping a spreadsheet of all relevant information is one thing that you should do, especially if you're in a strict organization that needs to keep track of every piece of equipment. Secondly, I work in a university computer lab. Right now, I got about 3 rooms full of computers which are placed against walls and barriers so I give them the lab name, the room name and a sequential number counting clockwise from the door. Hopefully, it'll make more sense to my boss than the last scheme, counting them by order of arrival.