You readers hit the switch on our remote control challenge, offering up the straightforward (a business card tray) and the sublime (a remote control car that delivers your in-use widgets right to the couch). But the prize goes to Pat Tassoni of Olympia, Washington, who cleverly fashioned drawer pulls from a couple of old clickers.

DRAWER PULLS $5 2 similarly sized remote controls Glue 4 ¼" stove bolts (½" long) 4 ¼" stove bolts (long enough to fit through the drawer front and halfway into the bolt couplers) 4 ¼" washers 4 ¼" bolt couplers Flathead screwdriver Ruler Pen or marker Power drill ¼" drill bit Wrench

1. Remove the battery compartment cover from each remote. 2. Use the flathead screwdriver to gently pry apart the front and back plates of each remote. 3. Glue the battery cover of each remote in place. Let dry. 4. Measure the distance between the existing hardware-mounting holes on the drawers (or drill your own holes) and mark two corresponding spots on each back plate. Center the spots on each remote so that the handles will line up once they're installed. 5. Drill holes where marked. 6. Line up the washers and the drill holes on the inside of one of the back plates. Thread the ½"-long stove bolts first through the washers, then through the back plates, and into the bolt couplers. Use the wrench to hold the couplers in place while you tighten the bolts. 7. Repeat this process with the other back plate. 8. Reattach the front and back plates of each remote, gluing them in place. Let dry. 9. Mount the handles using the longer stove bolts, threading them from the inside of the drawer and into the bolt couplers. 10. Make popcorn and fire up the Netflix.

NEXT UP: CDS

{Deadline: September 30, 2007}
by Anthony Discenza

I'm going to make a bold assertion here: Computers encourage waste. Certainly, they fail to discourage it, by supporting the practice of perpetual revision. Nothing we produce is ever really final anymore—we can "save as" ad infinitum, creating two dozen variations of the same mix CD or vacation DVD because the first 23 just weren't quite right. And the ever-dropping cost of media only makes things worse.

Not very long ago, I was incredibly stingy about burning things to DVD—back in the old days (circa 2000), the going rate for good-quality DVD-Rs topped $30 per disc. Now we buy them for literally pennies each, which condones the habit of making "test disks" that end up nothing more than shiny slivers of plastic in the scrap heap. Say you burned 50 copies of your band's speed-metal concert onto DVD—before the bassist decided the skull buttons on the Extras menu should be green instead of blue. Or you tried to save a little money by purchasing generic discs in bulk, only to find out they're better for holding drinks than data. Now it's your turn to play DJ; the smartest solution for keeping these spent discs spinning wins a subscription and a ReadyMade T-shirt.

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