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  • Remove a Cork Stuck Inside a Wine Bottle With a Ribbon
    You go to pop open a fresh bottle of wine—maybe you don’t have a proper wine-opening tool —and the cork, or part of it, plummets into the bottle. You’re left with two choices: finish the bottle, or use this handy trick.Read more...
    - 3 Jul 16, 6:00pm -
  • Flamyngo Simplifies Getting Travel Tips From Friends
    iPhone: If you’re heading out on vacation to somewhere your friends or family have already gone, it’s natural to ask for any suggestions they might have for places to go. This usually results in a mess of texts and emails from various people. Fla…
    - 3 Jul 16, 5:00pm -
  • Get Your Game of Thrones Fix With This Interactive, Spoiler-Proof Map
    Game of Thrones fans, you might not know what to do with yourself now that Season 6 is over. This interactive map will help you get your fix until the next season starts.Read more...
    - 3 Jul 16, 3:00pm -
  • When In Doubt, Mimic the Body Language of Others to Be More Persuasive
    Body language varies from one person to another. Trying to follow a set of specific actions to effectively communicate with everyone is bound to fail. If you’re talking with someone one-on-one, mimic their body language instead to be more persuasiv…
    - 3 Jul 16, 2:00pm -
  • This DIY Wood Beer Carrier Even Has a Bottle Opener on the Side
    Instructables user Herbsco built this reusable, good-looking beer carrier out of solid walnut, which probably explains why it looks so good, but even if you don’t have that available, he has everything you need to make your own—and attach a bottl…
    - 3 Jul 16, 1:00pm -
  • Ambient Noise Showdown: Noisli vs. White Noise vs. Rain Rain
    Ambient noise apps drown out distractions so you can focus on your work, or generate serene, peaceful environments that encourage you to fall asleep. But with dozens you can download, it’s hard to know which is the best. Noisli, White Noise, and Ra…
    - 3 Jul 16, 10:00am -
  • A Video and Graphic Guide to 12 of America's Most Beautiful Natural Parks
    There are dozens of beautiful National Parks in the United States, but if you could only see one, this video and graphic guide from Expedia helps you narrow your choices down to 12 great parks you can explore, all of which are known for specific land…
    - 3 Jul 16, 9:00am -
  • Sunday's Best Deals: Fire HD 6, GreenWorks Tools, Weather Radios
    Weather radios, GreenWorks tools, and Amazon’s Fire HD 6 lead off Sunday’s best deals.Read more...
    - 3 Jul 16, 8:30am -
  • This Week's Top Downloads
    Every week, we share a number of downloads for all platforms to help you get things done. Here were the top downloads from this week.Read more...
    - 2 Jul 16, 6:00pm -
  • Clean Rusty Grill Grates With Some Oil, Salt, and a Potato
    If you don’t grill very often that probably means you don’t clean your grill regularly either. If your grill grates are covered in burnt food and rust, you can get it ready for a cookout with a few household staples.Read more...
    - 2 Jul 16, 5:00pm -

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  • newTwo sides of your Windows PC, covered for $38.39
    TL;DR: Get Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office Professional 2021 lifetime licenses for $38.39 (reg. $418.99) with code DEAL20.Word and Excel get most of the attention, but there's quite a bit more to Microsoft's desktop software. This bundle pairs O…
    - 2 hours ago 14 Nov 26, 4:00pm -
  • newIt's not too late to get back into piano, especially for $31.99
    TL;DR: Get a one-year flowkey Classic subscription with interactive piano lessons and more than 1,000 classical pieces for $31.99 (reg. $189) with code DEAL20.Maybe you took piano lessons as a kid and can still remember a few scales, but the rest is…
    - 8 hours ago 14 Nov 26, 10:00am -
  • FAA orders nationwide ground stop: please do not call it "AI"
    The Trump Administration is so invested in their silly names for things that during a frightening nationwide all-ground stop at our airports, Markwayne Mullin is policing language instead of explaining what the heck is going on.Neither the FAA nor t…
    - 1 day ago 13 Nov 26, 4:50pm -
  • Get MS Office 2024 Pro Plus for $48 for life while it's on sale 
    TL;DR: Get lifetime access to the entire Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus for Windows for just $47.99 (reg. $249.99) while it's on sale.Upgrading your productivity suite when there's a good bargain is always a win, and Microsoft Office is sur…
    - 1 day ago 13 Nov 26, 4:00pm -
  • Florida's new identity politics law cancels St. Patrick's Day parade
    Using hatred to write laws, instead of thinking about the consequences, does have consequences.Florida's pudding-eating Governor Ron DeSantis signed SB 1134 to stop local governments from spending public money on "identity politics." The law prohibi…
    - 1 day ago 13 Nov 26, 2:38pm -
  • Iranian LEGO propaganda videos just keep getting better
    Post-election Iranian LEGO propaganda hits even harder.The Trump Administration has been bested by Iran's propaganda engine at every turn. These LEGO videos are just going to be legendary in history classes.Pig Donald is great.Previously:• Afte…
    - 1 day ago 13 Nov 26, 2:00pm -
  • Kim Davis's karma bill: $565,285.91 for refusing a gay marriage in 2015 and then refusing to pay for it
    Former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis has spent a decade refusing to pay the fines for standing behind her bigotry instead of doing her job. Now, she's evidently in hiding.The fee began at $50,000 for refusing a gay marriage. Her decade of appeals…
    - 1 day ago 13 Nov 26, 1:19pm -
  • Darth Vader's lightsaber sells for a record $4.875 million
    Darth Vader's hero dueling lightsaber that was used in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi sold for $4.875 million. It's the highest price ever paid for a Star Wars item at an auction. Experts screen-matched the lightsaber to the same pr…
    - 1 day ago 13 Nov 26, 12:53pm -
  • James Hoffmann on the coffee industry's origin videos: "your pity is valueless"
    There are two kinds of coffee origin videos, and in this report straight from Peru, coffee YouTube's biggest star, James Hoffmann, has a problem with both of them. One typical video is romantic: the steep hill, the birds, the sun offer a story that…
    - 1 day ago 13 Nov 26, 12:45pm -
  • Person Do Thing: make friends guess a word using only 34 simple words
    My friend Uri Bram created a party guessing game called Person Do Thing. To play, you draw a card from a deck with a "target word" on it. No one else can see the word. You have to try to get the group to guess the word using only 34 simple words. —…
    - 1 day ago 13 Nov 26, 12:35pm -

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