Jay Marcyes

I was going to get laser eye surgery a few years ago but got scared because of all the crap I read on the internet (later I found out my mom can't get it and most likely I can't either). I could have used a post like this a few years ago.

My favorite quote from the article:

The IRS has increased the number of audits on individual tax returns to 1.3 million in fiscal 2006 from about 618,000 in fiscal 2000. [...] Your odds of being audited go up with your income and the complexity of your return. [...] the agency uses a mathematical formula to identify returns with a higher likelihood of finding more tax due.

Most returns -- those with income below $100,000 -- will easily pass this test because they are less complicated. In fact, only 0.89% of those returns were subjected to an audit in 2006, and 82% of those were correspondence audits.

For those making more than $100,000 but less than $1 million, about 1.67% of returns were audited, though 56.4% of these were correspondence audits.

Odds are less favorable for the wealthy: More than 6% of returns with income of $1 million or more were audited in fiscal 2006, and 54.7% were in person.

"If you're earning that kind of money and we notice a problem, you're going to hear from us," IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson says in a statement on the agency's Web site.

Good, but rather long, article about the right way to praise your kids.

finds the latitude and longitude of US addresses.

Has good brief descriptions of a bunch of the more popular hikes in Utah.