About once a year, I purge my closets of all my unwanted clothes, whether it’s the jeans that no longer fit, the T-shirts I’ve worn to shreds, or the weird-ass dress that seemed like a good idea at the time but ended up being an exercise in medieval…
Lees meerThe newest Nintendo Switch, commonly known as the Switch OLED, was released in October 2021. It’s the fourth major release in the Switch generation of consoles, after the original Switch in 2017, the Switch V2 in August 2019 (which offered better ba…
Lees meerFiguring out the age of the Internet is like figuring out the age of the universe: We could date it back to the 1960s and ARPANET, or the introduction of the TCP/IP protocol in 1983, or the launch of America Online in 1985, or the invention of the W…
Lees meerUnless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 18 months, you know that the housing market is bonkers. Prices are out of control, demand is out of control, and properties are selling faster and with more offers than before the pandemic began. I…
Lees meerChristmas is a load of shit, you say? Christmas movies are bad, actually? Well then, instead of supporting the holiday industrial complex by watching Miracle on 34th Street or Home Alone for the eight billionth time, slap on one of these anti-Chris…
Lees meerWhen it comes to home design and decor, everything old is new. From patterns and colors, to furniture and home layout, a lot of the current trends aren’t current at all. And while it’s easy to find a new Art Deco lamp at Target, or a midcentury-mode…
Lees meerOther than toddlers attempting to avoid naps, if you ask almost anyone else, they’ll tell you that they’re tired—if not exhausted. In addition to constantly being busy, many people would likely blame their persistent tiredness on a lack of restful s…
Lees meerSome humans may think it’s the most wonderful time of the year, but their pets might not love the holidays as much as they do. For one thing, it probably throws off their normal schedule of sleeping 20 hours a day. Plus, there’s all this weird stuff…
Lees meerOnly a few weeks after recalling a variety of their aerosol antiperspirants, the Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) has now issued a voluntary recall of some of its aerosol dry shampoo and conditioner sprays, according to a notice from P&G posted on the…
Lees meerThe PS5 and Xbox Series X|S have been out in the world for over a year, meaning we’re firmly inside the next-gen gaming era, and if you don’t have one of these systems yet, it can feel like you’re missing out. But are you, really? It has me wonderin…
Lees meerDonating a gift to a total stranger is a great way to celebrate the holiday spirit, but you have to know where and how to give first. Handing something to a random person on the street isn’t the most effective method, and some giving organizations d…
Lees meerFew shows have blown a lead quite like How I Met Your Mother. For a few years there in the mid-aughts, it looked the the most natural successor to Friends: An NYC-set, relationship-focused group hang filled with memes and moments that entered the po…
Lees meerApple’s AirTags and Find My service can be helpful for finding things you lose—but they also introduce a big privacy problem. While those of us on iOS have had some tools for fighting those issues, Apple left those of us on Android without much to w…
Lees meerSome movies live on forever. But some movies, like old toys, are loved passionately—and then abandoned entirely. Sometimes that’s by design; movies made to catch hold of a cultural moment aren’t likely to endure. A star or a style that’s big today i…
Lees meerThis week, kids are watching season 2 of The Witcher, navigating the pitfalls of virtual reality (spoiler: the problem is other people), and enjoying some old fashioned glitter bombing. They are not, it seems, posting school shooting threats on TikT…
Lees meerListen, I don’t have pets. My three kids under age 9 keep begging for a dog, to which I say, “Are you going to pick up its poo at 5:30 in the morning when it’s freezing outside?” To which they reply, “Yes! We will!” Which we all know is a heinous, …
Lees meerMost early abortions are done by taking pills that cause a miscarriage. This method—medication abortion—is simple and safe, but until recently, federal rules made it illegal to get these pills in the mail like other prescriptions. The FDA has now pe…
Lees meerWhen Disney acquired 20th Century Fox in 2019, it also acquired that once-venerable studio’s slate of animated films in development, which included two comic book-based properties I was very excited for: Mouse Guard, axed two weeks before productio…
Lees meerSome people are just too hard to buy for. You know the type. They’re really into something, and they’re really particular about it. Gamers and bookworms come to mind, but the same applies to people who are really into coffee.Read more...
Lees meerEvery year, Apple releases new features that both improve data privacy on the iPhone, and set a new benchmark for the industry as a whole. With iOS 15, it’s all about transparency. iOS 15.2 brings a new feature called App Privacy Report that provide…
Lees meerDogs are our companions, our friends, and our helpers. They deserve the best in life that we have to offer—and that means accepting their deep desire to spend time with us in the kitchen, making their food and water easily accessible (even in small…
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