If this is you, perhaps you should reevaluate your fashion choices. It is perfectly all right to be low maintenance, and we are not suggesting that you spend a fortune on a new wardrobe.

But the fact is that your clothes make an impression on the people you meet. What do you like? What do you laugh at? These things can be expressed to everyone around you without you saying a word.

Here are 10 reasons to get more creative with your clothes:

1. It’s infinitely cooler. If you are still letting your mom pick up shirts for you at the local thrift store, you could definitely use an element of “coolness” in your life. It’s cool that you don’t obsess about clothes, but it’s most definitely not cool that you have no say in your clothing choices.

2. It’s easy. If the reason that you don’t want to customize your clothing is because you are afraid of a hassle, you can rest assured that it’s a simple process.

You can find a website that will allow you to pick your article of clothing, put unique content on it, and have it shipped to you in a matter of minutes.

3. It’s funny. The number one reason that people customize their clothing, especially t-shirts, is because they can more easily express their sense of humor and let other people laugh at their inside jokes.

4. It’s cheap. It’s more affordable than ever to order exactly what you want, especially if you buy in bulk. You can pay less than what you would pay for a plain t-shirt at a department store, and you can get it customized.

5. It’s creative. Even for those of us who are not artistically inclined, creating a customized shirt enables us to be more creative and express yourself with art, graphics, text, or all the above.

6. It’s fast. For a professional-looking product, you only have to wait a week or two, rather than wait for the stores you like to start carrying the kinds of things you want, which could never happen.

7. Custom clothes make great presents. If you are the altruistic type, you can create just about anything for anyone using custom clothing websites. This can include an inside joke t-shirt for your friend or some sexy custom underwear for your significant other.

8. It the perfect solution. For those who struggle to find the balance between caring about clothes and caring too much about clothes, custom t-shirts and other clothing are perfect. They say “I care about clothes, but I am not a slave to fashion.”

9. It can weed out false friends. Maybe your new t-shirt design is offensive to some people. Maybe some people think it’s stupid. So what? Now you can find people with the same sense of humor at you without having to actually talk to the rest of them.

10. It’s fun. We are willing to bet that after you make, order, and wear your first custom t-shirt and get your first compliment, you will realize how much fun it is to express yourself with quirky clothes.

What are you waiting for? Get yourself a personality today!

10. A Teleprompter for Rick Perry

We all know Mitt Romney, Herman Cain and Michelle Bachman have great stage presence. It’s unfortunate and unfair that Rick Perry has to look like a fool on stage. There are three great places to find a teleprompters for Rick: 1. Wal Mart 2. President Obama’s back pocket and 3. Umm….. uh… oops.

9. A Seat for Rebecca Black

Which seat can you take? How about the one we get you for Christmas Rebecca? Then everyone would be happy. You, because you won’t have to sing about sitting in the front seat or sitting in the backseat and us, because we can finally take off our ear plugs.

8. An MLB lockout for Kim Kardashian

The Kardashain Humphries wedding ended quicker than a GOP debate. Now, the only chance of Kim rebounding is to have another lockout. Since the NBA lockout is just about over, it’s time for Kim to start hunting her next victim and what better market than the MLB? Watch out Albert.

7. Tim Tebow Bobble Head for Kyle Orton

Because Orton seems to be the only one in the country that hates Tim Tebow.

6. A Map of the ’67 Israel Borders for Obama

After all, that’s what he wants, right?

5. A Thin Pasty-White Vampire Boyfriend for 80% of American Women

The other twenty percent are team Jacob and we don’t care about them…

4. A Restraining Order for Justin Bieber

How many times is this alleged baby mama going to demand a DNA test? Maybe until she gets the results she’s looking for, or in other words never. I feel bad for the Biebster, I really do.

3. Soap and Water for Occupy Wall Street Protestors

They still may not know what they’re protesting, but at least they would look and smell decent.

2. Time Machine for Bin Laden

The question is would he go back to 2000 or 2010? Was it worth running for ten years of your life only to get shot in the head and tossed in the ocean? I think he’d reconsider pissing off the U.S.

1. iPhone 4S for Bill Gates

Now Bill will never run out of ideas. If he comes to a point where he can’t think of what to create next, he can just ask Siri. It’s almost as good as consulting Steve Jobs, right?

Facebook has recently updated their system to make it easier to find friends using categories or groups. It’s hard to believe the Facebook guys didn’t get this idea from Google. Google’s circles allow you to categorize those you “follow” and filter not only the posts in you feed (who’s content you see) but also your own posts (who sees your content). The benefit of this over Facebook’s friend groups is that you can actually follow someone without having to be their friend. Simply put them in a group labeled “following” or “random interests” and viola, that person’s posts show up in your feed.

#9 Hangout

Google Plus has a cool feature called Hangout. Sounds fun huh? It allows you to group chat with a webcam. Essentially you are hanging out over the web…hence the name.

#8 What’s Hot

Google Plus just came out with this feature. Along with being able to filter incoming posts, you can now click on the “What’s Hot” tab to see what people in the Google Plus world are talking about. Google also does a great job of making sure the same person doesn’t show up in the “What’s Hot” section all the time. That means any Joe Schmoe can have their content read by the world if it’s popular enough.

#7 Public Circles

This goes along a little with the circles feature but takes it to another level. If you’ve added all your friends and found everybody you want to follow, you can continue growing your circles by adding a “public circle.” Simply search “public circle” and a topic of interest within the Google Plus site and you will more than likely find a circle that has been published. Also try searchin “published circle.” It’s a new feature so there will be more circles available in the future but for now, see if you can find some good ones.

#6 Google Integration

Since it’s a product of Google, it’s easy to integrate Google Plus with other Google features like Gmail. You can easily find new people especially if you have a large contact list. Google chat stays on the left side so you can chat with your contacts while reading their profile (kind of a stalker move, but still). Pictures are easily uploaded to a Picasa web album and ban be tagged and edited from there and seamlessly posted to Google Plus.

#5 It’s Google!

It is apparent through using Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Chrome, etc. that Google knows what they are doing. Google Plus is growing at an alarming rate and you will more than likely have a Google Plus account in the future. Why not get the feel of it now?

#4 Best of Both Worlds

I have heard to many people claim that they already use Twitter and/or Facebook and don’t need another social site. Google Plus is great because it takes the best of both worlds and combines them into one. Twitter is great if you want to follow anyone and everyone but you really don’t have much of a face. No pictures and no real profile. Facebook takes care of that with the ability to upload numerous pictures and personalize your profile. But with Facebook, you can’t really follow your favorite actor or athlete as easily as you can with Twitter. With Google Plus, you can make a detailed profile and follow people like ESPN’s Erin Andrews.

#3 +Google Mobile App

Now I’ve only owned a smart phone for a very small window in time but the Google Plus mobile app was so easy to use and looks much better than the Facebook and Twitter apps. If you haven’t checked out the app, you are missing out.

#2 Sparks

With Facebook or Twitter, in order to share something you physically had to open a new tab, find the the article, photo, etc., copy the link and share. With Sparks, you can search any topic of interest right from Google Plus and as soon as you find something worth sharing, just push the share button. Simple.

#1 +1

The +1 feature is similar to the “like” button for Facebook but easier. Have you ever done a Google search and seen a button that looks like a folder with a “+1″ on it? That’s what you would click to share that link. When reading an article or a blog post, look for that button. On your Google Plus profile, +1′s show up under their own tab. It makes them much easier to find.

#9 Two Cameras
The addition of a front-facing camera to the iPhone 4 has made a big difference in the overall experience. Facetime is an obvious use for it, but I am also looking forward to using it when Skype for iPhone is updated.

#8 Multitasking
I’ve never been one of the folks that really cared much about multitasking on my iPhone. I am not sure if it is just how I tended to use it or what, but it just has not been a huge priority for me. I was pleased to note that in iOS 4, Apple seems to have done a good first pass at it. In addition, they did it in a way that seems to minimize the drain on the iPhone’s battery.

#7 Home Screen Wallpaper
I love being able to add my own wallpaper to my home screen. It really brightens it up considerably compared to what my old iPhone 3G used to look like. I hated not being able to customize the way my home screen looked on that old phone.

#6 Retina Display
I read many ebooks on my iPhone, and most of my reading is done while I’m walking on a treadmill at the gym. When I first heard about the “retina display” feature, I sort of wrote it off to some cheesy marketing by Apple. But the Retina Display really is quite sharp, and it makes a big difference when reading on the iPhone 4. It’s quickly becoming one of my favorite things about the iPhone 4. Once you get used to it, it’s hard to imagine using an older iPhone or another phone with a lesser screen.

#5 iMovie
Okay, technically iMovie does not come with iPhone 4. You actually have to buy it from the app store for $4.99, but what a great app you get for five bucks! I spent some time playing with it (I’ll have more to say about video below) and I think it’s a great deal. I’m no video aficionado, but I had a lot of fun using iMovie and I found it to be incredibly easy and fun to use on my iPhone 4.

#4 Better Photos
One of the things I liked the least about my iPhone 3G was its crappy camera. The pictures were always grainy and ugly, for the most part. The iPhone 4’s 5 megapixel camera (with LED flash) has made a huge difference for me. I used to have to carry around a Panasonic digital camera to take photos (and video) with, since the iPhone 3G’s camera sucked so bad. Now I can just tote around my iPhone 4 and that’s it.

#3 HD Video
Another thing I hated about my iPhone 3G was its inability to record video. Oh sure, I downloaded an app that let me do it eventually. However, the video was horrible and almost completely useless. The iPhone 4’s ability to let me take HD videos at 30 FPS is one of the things I like the most about it.

One of the first things I did when I first got my iPhone 4 was to take some videos of my parrot. I was shocked at how nice they came out, compared to what I was expecting. The iPhone 4’s ability to take such great video is the final nail in the coffin of my Panasonic digital camera. There’s simply no need for me to carry that camera around any more.

#2 iBooks
As I noted in my review of iBooks for iPhone, one of the big disappointments with iPhone for iPad was that it didn’t have an iPhone counterpart. That problem has now been remedied. iBooks works very well on my iPhone 4, though I remain more of an Amazon Kindle reader for the reasons I mentioned in my review.

Still, I’m very glad to see iBooks on the iPhone and I will definitely be using it to read some of the books I bought in the iBooks store.

#1 Folders
I’ve waited a long, long time for folders on my iPhone. I have always hated the mess of app icons on the home screen. After a while, there were just so many of them that it got irritating to scroll through them and find the app I wanted.As soon as I was able to, I set up folders on my iPhone. It’s fantastic to be able to group apps and keep my home screen organized. I still have a few floating apps but the horrific chaos that existed before is now gone. Most of my apps are tucked away logically into the appropriate folders.

1. It instantly turns you into a hardcore man

Before, you may have been perceived by yourself and others as being meek, effeminate, and generally useless. Armed with facial here, you are a force to be reckoned with. You are manly. It is like a machine gun on your face.

2. Women might just touch it

Direct hand to face contact might have been taboo before, but with a beard, there’s no telling what could happen.

3. It can keep you warm

Depending on how long your beard is, it can either protect your face from the elements, or protect your entire body. Don’t limit the possibilities here.

4. It makes you look smarter

This is especially true if you learn to stroke your beard at the appropriate time. For example, a hot girl asks you what you think of some book you have never read. A thoughtful beard stroke communicates, “Yes, I have read it, and I’m trying to decide which of my many words to use to discuss it.” If you are lucky, she will be so enamored that an audible response will not be necessary.

5. People trust a beard

In a crisis, the bearded person is assumed to have all the answers. When a natural disaster ensues, a beard communicates that you are prepared and can be trusted.

6. It’s a good disguise

A beard can easily be adapted to make you appear to be a suave latino man, a gruff Russian, a homeless man, or a merciless dictator. While we would never recommend shaving it off completely, you can adjust it as needed.

7. In emergencies, it can be used as kindling

As mentioned in reason #5, there may come a time where people need you and your beard for comfort and protection. Imagine yourself in the midst of a snowy night with no fire. Hopefully at this point your beard is long enough to spare a few inches or feet. We would always recommend cutting the beard hair off before using it to start a fire.

8. It makes you less aerodynamic

While this may not seem like an advantage for sky-divers, it may just save your life if your plane crashes over the open ocean.

9. It is excellent for concealing items

Again, the size and weight of the item depends on the length and thickness of the beard, but you can graduate all the way up to small animals or weapons in some cases. Start small – a stick of gum or a paperclip.

10. Assert your manliness!

Growing a beard is something that women cannot do! And should not do, if perchance they should happen to be able to. So stick it to the woman! Wear your facial hair with pride.

10. Facebook’s Terms Of Service are completely one-sided. Let’s start with the basics. Facebook’s Terms Of Service state that not only do they own your data (section 2.1), but if you don’t keep it up to date and accurate (section 4.6), they can terminate your account (section 14). You could argue that the terms are just protecting Facebook’s interests, and are not in practice enforced, but in the context of their other activities, this defense is pretty weak. As you’ll see, there’s no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt. Essentially, they see their customers as unpaid employees for crowd-sourcing ad-targeting data.

9. Facebook’s CEO has a documented history of unethical behavior. From the very beginning of Facebook’s existence, there are questions about Zuckerberg’s ethics. According to BusinessInsider.com, he used Facebook user data to guess email passwords and read personal email in order to discredit his rivals. These allegations, albeit unproven and somewhat dated, nonetheless raise troubling questions about the ethics of the CEO of the world’s largest social network. They’re particularly compelling given that Facebook chose to fork over $65M to settle a related lawsuit alleging that Zuckerberg had actually stolen the idea for Facebook.
8. Facebook has flat out declared war on privacy. Founder and CEO of Facebook, in defense of Facebook’s privacy changes last January: “People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that has evolved over time.” More recently, in introducing the Open Graph API: “… the default is now social.” Essentially, this means Facebook not only wants to know everything about you, and own that data, but to make it available to everybody. Which would not, by itself, necessarily be unethical, except that …
7. Facebook is pulling a classic bait-and-switch. At the same time that they’re telling developers how to access your data with new APIs, they are relatively quiet about explaining the implications of that to members. What this amounts to is a bait-and-switch. Facebook gets you to share information that you might not otherwise share, and then they make it publicly available. Since they are in the business of monetizing information about you for advertising purposes, this amounts to tricking their users into giving advertisers information about themselves. This is why Facebook is so much worse than Twitter in this regard: Twitter has made only the simplest (and thus, more credible) privacy claims and their customers know up front that all their tweets are public. It’s also why the FTC is getting involved, and people are suing them (and winning).
Update: Check out this excellent timeline from the EFF documenting the changes to Facebook’s privacy policy.
6. Facebook is a bully. When Pete Warden demonstrated just how this bait-and-switch works (by crawling all the data that Facebook’s privacy settings changes had inadvertently made public) they sued him. Keep in mind, this happened just before they announced the Open Graph API and stated that the “default is now social.” So why sue an independent software developer and fledgling entrepreneur for making data publicly available when you’re actually already planning to do that yourself? Their real agenda is pretty clear: they don’t want their membership to know how much data is really available. It’s one thing to talk to developers about how great all this sharing is going to be; quite another to actually see what that means in the form of files anyone can download and load into MatLab.
5. Even your private data is shared with applications. At this point, all your data is shared with applications that you install. Which means now you’re not only trusting Facebook, but the application developers, too, many of whom are too small to worry much about keeping your data secure. And some of whom might be even more ethically challenged than Facebook. In practice, what this means is that all your data – all of it – must be effectively considered public, unless you simply never use any Facebook applications at all. Coupled with the OpenGraph API, you are no longer trusting Facebook, but the Facebook ecosystem.
4. Facebook is not technically competent enough to be trusted. Even if we weren’t talking about ethical issues here, I can’t trust Facebook’s technical competence to make sure my data isn’t hijacked. For example, their recent introduction of their “Like” button makes it rather easy for spammers to gain access to my feed and spam my social network. Or how about this gem for harvesting profile data? These are just the latest of a series of Keystone Kops mistakes, such as accidentally making users’ profiles completely public, or the cross-site scripting hole that took them over two weeks to fix. They either don’t care too much about your privacy or don’t really have very good engineers, or perhaps both.
3. Facebook makes it incredibly difficult to truly delete your account. It’s one thing to make data public or even mislead users about doing so; but where I really draw the line is that, once you decide you’ve had enough, it’s pretty tricky to really delete your account. They make no promises about deleting your data and every application you’ve used may keep it as well. On top of that, account deletion is incredibly (and intentionally) confusing. When you go to your account settings, you’re given an option to deactivate your account, which turns out not to be the same thing as deleting it. Deactivating means you can still be tagged in photos and be spammed by Facebook (you actually have to opt out of getting emails as part of the deactivation, an incredibly easy detail to overlook, since you think you’re deleting your account). Finally, the moment you log back in, you’re back like nothing ever happened! In fact, it’s really not much different from not logging in for awhile. To actually delete your account, you have to find a link buried in the on-line help (by “buried” I mean it takes five clicks to get there). Or you can just click here. Basically, Facebook is trying to trick their users into allowing them to keep their data even after they’ve “deleted” their account.
2. Facebook doesn’t (really) support the Open Web. The so-called Open Graph API is named so as to disguise its fundamentally closed nature. It’s bad enough that the idea here is that we all pitch in and make it easier than ever to help Facebook collect more data about you. It’s bad enough that most consumers will have no idea that this data is basically public. It’s bad enough that they claim to own this data and are aiming to be the one source for accessing it. But then they are disingenuous enough to call it “open,” when, in fact, it is completely proprietary to Facebook. You can’t use this feature unless you’re on Facebook. A truly open implementation would work with whichever social network we prefer, and it would look something like OpenLike. Similarly, they implement just enough of OpenID to claim they support it, while aggressively promoting a proprietary alternative, Facebook Connect.
1. The Facebook application itself sucks. Between the farms and the mafia wars and the “top news” (which always guesses wrong – is that configurable somehow?) and the myriad privacy settings and the annoying ads (with all that data about me, the best they can apparently do is promote dating sites, because, uh, I’m single) and the thousands upon thousands of crappy applications, Facebook is almost completely useless to me at this point. Yes, I could probably customize it better, but the navigation is ridiculous, so I don’t bother. (And, yet, somehow, I can’t even change colors or apply themes or do anything to make my page look personalized.) Let’s not even get into how slowly your feed page loads. Basically, at this point, Facebook is more annoying than anything else.

1. Who will be there to make fun of Toby?
2. The frequency of the word “YESH” will plummet.
3. I don’t want more screen time for Andy and Erin’s love story.
4. Who else will disappoint kids by backing out on scholarship promises.
5. No more GPS guided lake excursions.
6. The show’s awkward factor will crash without him.
7. No more hit and runs involving Meredith in the parking lot.
8. We probably won’t see Holly again.
9. Whose awkward dinner parties will Jim and Pam go to now?
10. No more “that’s what she said” jokes.

Some people say the reason to secure an NBA season next fall would be to see D-Rose’s drives, Rondo’s one-armed battles, or Dwight Howard’s monster dunks. While I love those sights as much as anyone, I have my own list of reasons for not wanting the next NBA season to slip away. I am creating this list to convince NBA players why they shouldn’t go through with demanding the money that will bring about a lockout.

1. There will be no excuse to get me out of household chores.
2. Where else can I zone out while my girlfriend is talking?
3. The US will lose thousands of illegitimate baby births that year.
4. There isn’t enough money to hire a fourth All-Star onto the Heat.
5. There will be nothing to say “wow” about from October to June.
6. Millions of men switching to NASCAR will result in a lower national IQ.
7. Sports Center can only do so many Hockey highlights before I start feeling like Canada is trying to invade.
8. Do you know how much House Hunters women would think they could watch?
9. Who will there be to have my secret “man-crushes” on?
10. NBA players make more money than 99.9% of the world’s population already.

If you’ve been watching the news , you probably have noticed that the presidential race is starting to heat up. Sadly. It honestly feels like it just ended but I guess four years goes by faster than you think. The Republican candidates are coming out of the woodwork and among the potentials is the infamous Donald Trump. The fact that he has money, is kind of insane, and is pretty full of himself makes for a combination of traits that makes me think that he will really go for it. Unfortunately for Republicans, he has said that he will run as a third party candidate even if he doesn’t get the GOP nomination. I don’t think he’ll be elected but I could be proven wrong. Just in case he has a chance, I will appeal to future-voters with this list of 10 reasons the Trump should not be the man in the Oval Office.

1. More casinos is not the stimulus we need.
2. The leader of the free world should have better hair than that.
3. The Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces shouldn’t be so pouty.
4. The Cabinet should not resemble the cast of Celebrity Apprentice. (Lil’ John would definitely be over the Department of Agriculture if you know what I mean.)
5. How many first ladies will we have over his 4 years?
6. His bid for President might spark Omarosa to run in 2016.
7. He might deploy the army against Rosie O’Donnel (maybe that’s not a bad thing).
8. The Bush sisters would be dethroned as the “Hottest First Daughters.”
9. He’d probably paint the White House gold.
10. Enough Americans have already heard “You’re Fired!” from their real bosses.

1. They are the ultimate band wagon team.
2. The average intelligence among their fans is slightly above that of a jelly fish.
3. Looking part goat, part caveman, and part gangly teenage girl, Pau Gasol is hands down the weirdest looking player in the NBA.
4. Derek Fisher is better actor than the ones sitting on the front row.
5. Matt Barnes has about as much class as a black velvet painting hanging at a farmer’s market.
6. Lamar Odom married a Kardashian . . . enough said.
7. Phil Jackson can’t share the love. He has more Rings than fingers.
8. From the corner of your eye, Ron Artest looks like Blacula.
9. Odds are, you don’t live in LA. GIVE YOUR HOME TEAM SOME LOVE!
10. Laker fans honestly think Kobe is better the Michael Jordan.