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The heart condition is spelled differently

tomcooke — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:21:48 -0800

What do we call the period of cleaning that we carry out in the spring? That's right, Discardia! This five-year-old holiday started yesterday and lasts till April 5th. Via Lifehacker, who open the festivities with 10 ways to declutter your digital life.

By: wendell

wendell — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:35:31 -0800

I have a Libertarian neighbor who was planning to invade and occupy a local landfill and declare it the Independent Republic of Discardia. I guess he's gonna have to find another name. Refusia? Trashistan?

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:49:56 -0800

I thought Discardia was when you threw golden apples at ladies to make them fight. Maybe it's when you throw out the uneaten hot dog buns?

By: bettafish

bettafish — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:00:50 -0800

You were thinking of Discordia, louche.

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:05:12 -0800

You broke my funny.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:06:03 -0800

Isn't "Discardia" a song by The Pixies? ("I adoria, My discardia...")

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:06:33 -0800

By: iconomy

iconomy — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:18:23 -0800

I never would have thought to empty my inbox or move unused icons off of my desktop without Lifehacker. Another satisfied customer!

By: unSane

unSane — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:21:22 -0800

Lifehacker is the lamest site on the intarweb. Their 'stud finder' actually locates metal wires and pipes. (They claim it locates the nails in studs... :rolleyes:).

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:23:32 -0800

No, no, no - Discardia is something you get after drinking unfiltered pondwater. It was mentioned on Northern Exposure at least 4 or 5 times.

By: chara

chara — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:26:06 -0800

The lifehacker page looks wonky to me, as if someone removed all the CSS formating... Anyone else having this problem?

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:42:37 -0800

It's spring cleaning. Not everything in the world needs to be clever.

By: Bernt Pancreas

Bernt Pancreas — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:43:22 -0800

You've all got it wrong; discardia is a poem that you couldn't get away from in the seventies: "Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, And remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof." Or something.

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:51:30 -0800

Discardia sent me is very sweet. Thank you.

By: Reverend John

Reverend John — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:58:53 -0800

Hail Eros.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:06:04 -0800

I like that #2 in the ways to declutter is by unsubscribing to LifeHacker RSS. Wow, I feel better already!

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:07:55 -0800

I just decluttered my fnord.

By: darkstar

darkstar — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:10:59 -0800

Et in Discardia ego

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:13:46 -0800

LIFEHACK: Make sure your folders are properly organized for maximum access speed: A) Solo - 1) men - 2) women - 3) trans B) Two or more - 1) hetero - 2) balls touching - 3) lady-on-lady - 4) misc

By: justgary

justgary — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:38:03 -0800

You guys are too hard on life hacker. They told me if I'm feeling run down to get more sleep. It's worked wonders!

By: grubi

grubi — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:56:35 -0800

No, discardia is one of those shots your dog gets.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:57:41 -0800

Wait, so, this is a new expansion for Magic: The Gathering?

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:59:03 -0800

Mr. Nog, I believe the Lifehacker way would be much simpler: @WhackTo @HaveWhackedTo @NextWhack

By: jeblis

jeblis — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:01:51 -0800

10 ways to declutter your digital life. Http/1.1 Service Unavailable Apparently, "stop publishing your website" is #1

By: mkultra

mkultra — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:06:07 -0800

Discardia is not Datcardeya.

By: jeblis

jeblis — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:06:47 -0800

Greg Nog Make sure your folders are properly organized for maximum access speed: I tried that but one folder inevitably gets filled while the rest stay empty. Also what takes priority in the hierarchy A2M or DAP?

By: turbodog

turbodog — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:43:22 -0800

I'm about to discard Lifehacker from my RSS viewer. It seems every post now is a flashback to a year ago, some really obvious organizational tip, some so-anal-as-to-be-silly tip that takes more work than it saves, or a recap of AskMe. IIRC the editors get paid by the post and have daily minimums to meet, so it's no surprise that they constantly and cheerfully recycle their own old material and repost content from any number of other blogs at a furious pace. I, too, was going to dump them for good, but I discovered you can filter the RSS by tag. Currently I'm subscribed to this: http://lifehacker.com/tag/not:love-and-money/not:flashback/index.xml Recently they've invented new filler content tag that I need to add as well.

By: Guy_Inamonkeysuit

Guy_Inamonkeysuit — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:02:06 -0800

How I found cleanliness and what I did to her. It. Hmm?

By: jeblis

jeblis — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:24:19 -0800

Not everything in the world needs to be clever. Needs repeating. Should be tattooed on Cory Doctorow's head.

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:37:37 -0800

"I'm about to discard Lifehacker from my RSS viewer. It seems every post now is a flashback to a year ago, some really obvious organizational tip, some so-anal-as-to-be-silly tip that takes more work than it saves, or a recap of AskMe. IIRC the editors get paid by the post and have daily minimums to meet, so it's no surprise that they constantly and cheerfully recycle their own old material and repost content from any number of other blogs at a furious pace. I, too, was going to dump them for good, but I discovered you can filter the RSS by tag. Currently I'm subscribed to this: http://lifehacker.com/tag/not:love-and-money/not:flashback/index.xml Recently they've invented new filler content tag that I need to add as well." Yeah, I need to get around to filtering my Lifehacker feed as well. They used to post fun and useful programs on a daily basis, but it's been getting more and more useless and self-help-ish over time. I'll never dump them entirely, though. Their Ask Mefi Round-up was how I came across this site!

By: unSane

unSane — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:53:46 -0800

Needs repeating. Should be tattooed on Cory Doctorow's head. Oh Christ, no. Like all we need is a fucking Cory-got-this-cool-tattoo post on Boing Boing.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:14:07 -0800

Hail Eros No, no, Hail Erais.

By: mcrandello

mcrandello — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:18:40 -0800

"No, no, no - Discardia is something you get after drinking unfiltered pondwater. It was mentioned on Northern Exposure at least 4 or 5 times." I thought that gave you an amoeba confection.

By: ten pounds of inedita

ten pounds of inedita — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:25:02 -0800

Needs repeating. Should be tattooed on Cory Doctorow's head. Yeah, like we need him to look at himself in the mirror more often than he does now. Anyhow. Digital decluttering? What's the point? Every year I spent $100 on a new hard drive that's four times the size of my smallest hard drive, and I replace it. I just gave away a box of 60 VHS movies because there was no point in owning them anymore: I threw away my shitty old VCR a few years back and I can store pretty much every movie I'd ever want to see in a nearly negligible amount of physical space, digitally. Why would I want to declutter my data? I want to increase the amount of data I have and declutter my physical life.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:30:28 -0800

Hail Error

By: grobstein

grobstein — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:22:01 -0800

Needs repeating. Should be tattooed on Cory Doctorow's head. Yeah, like we need him to look at himself in the mirror more often than he does now. No dude, it's not for him -- it's the most eloquent possible defense of him, for anyone looking at him.

By: celerystick

celerystick — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:44:20 -0800

take it to the limit ..one more time . .....( the Eagles)