If I remember right the people conducting the experiments using the screwdriver were told that this method was stupid and dangerous.

Car forums are still somewhat active. There’s usually one per car make or chassis. For example I use zilvia.net for S chassis stuff and miata.net for Miata stuff which are both active.

Very snazzy. I should rewatch House.

The batteries that are other colours of the rainbow don’t fit in my red tools so that’s a big deciding factor there. As far as corded or hand tools it doesn’t matter to me. Sometimes I spraypaint tools bright colours so they don’t get lost as easy.

Relevant XKCD

I did not know that!

I do not think so in my experience. I’m a software developer and a lot of my job is searching solutions to problems. Every year or two I’ll try DDG because I love the concept but it never works as well for me. Putting the same search query into Google yeilds actual results for me more often than DDG does.

Imagine playing with a 22 hour delay on frames.