trouble in paradise

Time has passed, school year over, friends moved on, and spring is here. What more could a girl ask for? I've been in a relatively great mood for weeks now and all is good, except recently I've been notified by my ten-year-old brother that our nearly two-year-old Xbox 360 has been consumed by the ever dreaded Red Ring of Death. Now, at first I was understandably confused because I had no idea what it initially meant, so I looked it up on the internet and found out that the number of notches( I had three) depicted what exactly was wrong with the machine. 1 notch was something very minor, 2 notches meant a wire wasnt hooked all the way or something along those lines, but 3 and 4 notches meant something was seriously wrong with the 360: as in 3 was a soon-to-come mechanical meltdown and 4 being your $200 360 was dead and there was really nothing you could do about it.
Well, after a bit of research I looked up the problem and how to fix it and it was either spend a bit of money to have Microsoft themselves fix it, which I dont see why they couldnt have just made sure the problem was solved before they shipped out the cargo but whatever, I could buy a new 360, which wasnt going to happen or I could fix the problem myself, which included voiding the warranty, taking apart the entire system and messing around with the motherboard and soldering the disconnected wires myself.
I've taken apart my ps2 and fixed a serious problem it had so I know my way around a game system, but my ps2 was at least five years old when I fixed it and the 360 wasnt nearly as old or as cheap as the sony machinery and I was a little apprehensive about 'having my way' with the white system. After about an hour and a half of exploration and tweaking I couldnt for the life of me find a soldering iron in my house and had to give up and put the xbox back together. Before I went to bed I made sure it would turn on again(success on that but still red ring of death) and went to sleep.
But, Nicole, did you fix the problem?
Yes I did. How?
A towel.
Yes, you read right, a towel. After a bit more research on the 'trusty' Internet, I found out that I could fix my $200 game system with a $3 towel from target. Let me explain...apparently if I wrapped my 360 in a towel and let it run for about 20 minutes the system would overheat and the disconnected wires would 'melt' themselves together. After I followed the above instructions I turned off and on my system once...victory! The formally red ring turned a cheerful green and I was once again able to spend hours on a game that would rot my brain.
All is well in the gaming world once again thanks to a towel and a few distraught fellow gamers who with a bit of curiosity figured out the simplest solution to a problem.
The oh-so-helpful link