Not all yards (or budgets) are built for beautiful landscaping, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have a comfortable, aesthetically pleasing outdoor space. There are plenty of ways to upgrade your backyard without planting or growing anything.Read mor…
Lees meerIf you’re a new fan of Star Trek because Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has you hooked, welcome to the club, nerdlinger! Season two of SNW ends this week, so if you have a Star Trek itch, scratch it with Star Trek: The Original Series. SNW creatively…
Lees meerIf you’re an outdoorsy kind of person, nothing beats camping, whether you’re enjoying the light luxuries of an RV or truly roughing it in a tent. While communing with nature is a blast, there’s a reason humans have spent millennia trying to tame it …
Lees meerI have not seen the Barbie movie yet, but I have (somewhat unintentionally) made a Barbie Egg. It’s like a normal fried egg, except bright pink—almost magenta, really—with the slightly sweet, subtly sour, earthy flavor of pickled beets.Read more...
Lees meerWaking up to your favorite music is better than waking to a blaring alarm—it’s just more civilized. If you have a Google Home speaker, it’s easy to make it play a song or artist that will inspire you to get you out of bed.Read more...
Lees meerA fireplace can be a charming bit of old-school design in your home, evoking cozy winter evenings and simpler times when we lacked things like central heating. It’s not uncommon for newer homes to have fireplaces incorporated into their common areas…
Lees meerIf you’re a gaming purist, you know wired controllers are better. Or if you play competitive games, like fighters, you might have friends also plugging in to play with you. Well, when you do, you might want to think twice about using the port on the…
Lees meerIt’s a sad fact that of the 40 (or more) hours we spend at work every week, many are taken up by idle time, downtime, meetings, and other distractions. That’s why it’s essential that when you do find time to actually work, you’re in the zone and ge…
Lees meerTaco Bell is giving customers free tacos for the next five Tuesdays. To get yours, walk into just about any Taco Bell location on August 15, 22, 29, and September 5 and 12, and say, “Give me a free Doritos Locos Taco.” No purchase is necessary.Read …
Lees meerIf you’re a college student, two things are likely to be true: You probably love consuming streaming media, and you’re probably broke. But if you need to cut back your entertainment budget, there might be a way to do it without canceling one of your…
Lees meerYou already know that scheduling your tasks—whether you’re timeboxing, task batching, or theming entire days—is a major priority when it comes to being productive and getting stuff done. But when you have a bunch of tasks and don’t even know where t…
Lees meerApple Music is a serviceable Spotify alternative, but it has consistently lagged behind in one critical area for a music streaming service: recommendations. Spotify users have long praised their app’s algorithmic ability to serve them up worthwhile …
Lees meerThe saddest meal of the year is always the one immediately after returning from visiting family. Mine is usually more of a free-range fridge scrounge than an actual meal, and I always have a lot of questions: Is that leftover curry too old to eat, o…
Lees meerApplying to jobs is tedious, but dealing with tedium is AI’s speciality. If you’re tired of constantly drafting cover letters and manually entering your personal information, let a dedicated AI do it. LazyApply can help you generate application mate…
Lees meerThe major incentive to stay loyal to one specific airline is your ability to rack up points and miles. A few years back, you could be confident that a business-class flight to Europe would cost no more than about 60,000 points or miles each way. Unf…
Lees meerIt seems that, in an attempt to rebrand mayonnaise, various hip food establishments insist on calling all sorts of creamy condiments “aioli,” and I refuse to stand idly by, letting this go unchecked. Aioli is not, as some would have you believe, “fa…
Lees meerTasting real-deal balsamic vinegar for the first time can be life-changing. Traditionally made balsamic—aka “Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale”—is a far cry from the stuff you see at the grocery store. Where most of the stuff sold as “balsamic” is thin a…
Lees meerSo you think you’ve got this whole digital-security thing covered. You don’t reuse passwords; you don’t click suspicious links; you might even use burner email addresses. You’re invincible. Except, whoops, what’s that? You still got hacked? Wait, yo…
Lees meerSure, you can bring smoke to a summer salad by throwing a couple peaches, pineapple slices or romaine hearts on the grill, but what about those of us without grill access? We spend the summers roaming the earth, searching for even a hint of smoke t…
Lees meerWhile towels are used as part of our cleaning process, they are, in fact, extremely gross. Read more...
Lees meerIf you took a Spanish or French class in high school but now can’t remember the word for banana, you aren’t alone. It might be that you didn’t use the language enough for it to really stick, or that a traditional class didn’t fit your learning style…
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