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Ant farms are cool in and of themselves, but that doesn’t mean their designs can’t be improved on to look even more fascinating. WebEcoist has a great collection of some of the coolest ant farms around.

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So, now we know we’re being scammed. And those of us with an environmental bent are also fairly pissed off about the waste. But what can we do, when the printer locks up due to the “out of ink” message?

We can reset the chip.

Ink cartridge chips are the latest tool used by printer manufacturers to make sure that customers can’t override the low ink warning. The tiny electronic chips monitor ink usage, or, in many cases, simply count pages. Once the predefined threshold of a chip is passed, it will lock up the printer. The warning cannot be overridden.

But it turns out that there is a whole community of irritated printer owners who do not like being scammed. They have started up companies catering to other irritated printer owners, and one of the things they do is take ink cartridges and reverse engineer the chips. Then they build inexpensive “chip resetters” that exist for one purpose only: to reset the chip’s page count or ink level to zero [zero "usage," presumably].

Details on how to do this are at the link.  You learn something every day.

SWYP: See What You Print from Artefact on Vimeo.

Reddit user enthros discovered a very effective and simple way to destroy unwanted advertisements in your inbox: filter on the word “unsubscribe”. This is because pretty advertisement is required to have some sort of text that provides instructions on how to unsubscribe. The problem with this method is that you will catch some dolphins with your tuna (which is to say you’ll filter out some things you don’t want to filter). To avoid this, you’ll need to whitelist certain addresses in your filter so they’re not immediately trashed. There may be a few mishaps along the way, but if you’re plagued by email ads it’s probably worth the trouble. Alternatively, you could also just automatically move the filtered emails out of your inbox so you don’t see them. Once you have a filter that’s functioning as desired, you can start sending it all to the trash. Pretty neat! For more tips and tricks, check out our guide on eliminating spam email from your inbox. via lifehacker.com

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