Oil, food, and cost of living prices are skyrocketing but still aren’t anywhere as valuable as our time. Attorney Edgar Cahn though, is fighting for your right to be lazy.

Cahn is a leader in the “slow movement,” a national campaign that claims that speed kills. Its leaders say that Americans are so starved for time, our need for speed is destroying our health, families and communities.

To help us in our “time crisis” (or time of crisis) Cahn created TimeBanks USA.

TimeBanks members barter blocks of time known as “time dollars.” One member may, for example, buy groceries for a stranger in exchange for someone else walking their dog.

Maximizing your free time is what we’re all about since it’s vital to good health and sex. When you’re not relaxing while awake, make the most out of your naps.

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Widen or shorten your URL bar real estate by placing your mouse in between the “AwesomeBar” and embedded Google search in Firefox 3.

Start by hovering the mouse arrow the right of the down arrow in the AwesomeBar as shown in the picture above. Your mouse should then flip to the horizontal <–> position and you can slide the AwesomeBar bigger and smaller as desired. Doing so widens and shortens the search bar in reverse at the same time.

Once your Awesome Bar learns your browsing habits well enough, this little hack will save you time by giving you better use of the embedded search tool rather than surfing over to Google or Amazon. Like one of those searches to save for later? Firefox 3, like its predecessor, lets you drag tabs between seperate browser windows.

What would you do if your boss found you and decided to become your friend on your social networking sites?

Since these are the ultimate online time wasters, don’t use your real name when creating a profile to stay undercover from your teachers and co-workers.

Despite the spike in oil prices, Tupperware (and the plastic it’s made out of) has remained fairly cheap. The small plastic containers hover around a price point where companies can advertise them as disposable.

The lazy should in fact buy a weekly stock of disposable Tupperware not only to save themselves from having to do dishes (since they can be thrown away) but to save money money as well.

Disposable Tupperware is a waste of materials and requires the burning of fossil fuels to be created. You will save money however on you electric and water bills by using them exclusively. The energy required to heat water and water used to wash dishes (and the cost of detergent) all impact the lazy person’s finances.

Disposable Tupperware can also be reused if you’re not feeling particularly lazy on a given day. Filling your drawers with them is also cheaper than by stocking up on glass plates and bowls. The extra Tupperware might also entice your to bring your lunch to work - but that’s not as easy as eating out and it’s hard to maintain a job when you’re this lazy.

[photo by: sean dreillinger]

I’ve been having some major, and I mean major coding issues here with the site and well…been too lazy to fix them. Until now!

The one month hiatus is over and posts resume today. Be Lazier is a little baby in progress but has already been blessed with some popular posts about napping, Firefox tabs, and the benefits of daydreaming.

I’ll try to keep up the lazy content without being so lazy. Posts resume today.

[photo by: Xose Castro]