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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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  • newFederal judge tells Trump to turn the press passes back on
    U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly has granted a temporary restraining order reinstating Politico, MS NOW, and CNN to the White House press pool. He doesn't think DOJ has much chance of pulling this off.Reporters immediately reported for work, only…
    - 3 hours ago 24 Sep 26, 1:35pm -
  • newSenator Tommy Tuberville: pilots, flight attendants and air traffic controllers are furries
    Ranting about "transgenderism" in Congress, U.S. Senator Thomas "Tommy" Tuberville (R—Alabama) briefly diverted his attention to a different group: furries. "Many" airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers, he said, are part of…
    - 3 hours ago 24 Sep 26, 1:31pm -
  • newElizabeth Holmes is headed to a halfway house for people who need help finding jobs and housing
    It is unclear whether her plea to pardon broker and President of the United States Donald Trump helped speed this along, but Elizabeth Holmes is getting out of prison quite a bit early.Just four years into an eleven-year term, Elizabeth Holmes will…
    - 3 hours ago 24 Sep 26, 1:20pm -
  • newRare Moomin mug sells for €46k
    If you like Tove Janssen's Moomin, with its nearly perfect charm-disquiet ratio, you'll surely love the above "Diving with Shells" mug with Moomintroll enjoying a dip. The €46,023 sale price, though, set a record at Muumimukit rahaksi, a website sp…
    - 4 hours ago 24 Sep 26, 12:29pm -
  • newDisney built a subway inside Houston's airport
    This week on the popular theme park podcast Disney Dish with Len Testa and Jim Hill, Disney historian Jim Hill tells the story of The Walt Disney Transportation Company and its one achievement: installing a PeopleMover in what was then called The Hou…
    - 4 hours ago 24 Sep 26, 12:25pm -
  • newA dolphin in Australia steals food from fish in the grossest way
    If you have ever eaten French fries in the vicinity of seagulls, you have experienced kleptoparasitism, even if you don't know the word. Seagulls snatch fries from humans. Bald eagles harass ospreys into dropping fish. Pea crabs live inside mollusks…
    - 4 hours ago 24 Sep 26, 12:25pm -
  • newSet up one PC with Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office for $32.97
    TL;DR: This $32.97 (reg. $418.99) bundle gives one PC perpetual licenses for Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office Professional 2021, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access, and Publisher.A Windows PC isn't much use without an ope…
    - 7 hours ago 24 Sep 26, 10:00am -
  • newYour DVD shelf is collecting dust: Digitize it for $29.99
    TL;DR: DVDneXtCOPY DVD Ripper converts your discs, including copy-protected ones, into MP4, MKV, AVI, and MOV files that play on the devices you actually use. Get it for $29.99 (reg. $59.99).Discs don't age well. The player in the living room is pro…
    - 19 hours ago 23 Sep 26, 10:00pm -
  • newActor Richard Harrison, who battled Nazis and ninjas, dead at 90
    Actor and director Richard Harrison, famed for low-budget but eminently memorable military epics, spaghetti westerns and martial arts flicks, is dead at 90. His friend Joan Borsten announced his death on social media and eulogized "an A-life in B-mov…
    - 20 hours ago 23 Sep 26, 9:01pm -
  • newAt Trump's midterm "Trumpapalooza," "any Republican" will do
    Turns out Walter Masterson's question to voters at Trump's mid-term Republican convention was so difficult it was unfair: Who are you voting for?Perhaps they are ashamed. Maybe they really do not know. Certainly, MAGA does not care who it votes for…
    - 24 hours ago 23 Sep 26, 4:58pm -

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