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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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  • newA Fukuoka okonomiyaki shop will give you its 10-pound pancake for free, if you can finish it in 40 minutes
    When I was in Japan last month, we went to an okonomiyaki restaurant in Fukuoka, Japan. It was called Denko Sekka, in Canal City Hakata, a shopping center. (Denko Sekka means "lightning fast.")Okonomiyaki is basically a kind of pancake or crepe cook…
    - 60 mins ago 3 Nov 26, 2:02pm -
  • newKeeping Claude running apparently requires nearly a trillion dollars
    The money incinerator is just getting up to speed. Anthropic's amended IPO filing says the company now has $895.4 billion in purchase commitments and lease agreements; almost all of it is for compute and infrastructure. AI datacenter builders rejoice…
    - 2 hours ago 3 Nov 26, 12:56pm -
  • newHomer may never have said Ithaca was an island
    A 3,000-year-old geography puzzle hides inside the Odyssey. YouTuber Honor Cargill-Martin examines an odd twist in the search for Homer's Ithaca: he may never actually have described Ithaca as an island at all.Researchers spent decades, longer than…
    - 2 hours ago 3 Nov 26, 12:33pm -
  • newThese glasses turn silent mouth movements into text
    A couple of Georgia Tech computer science students recently demonstrated a system that converts tongue and mouth movements into text. It uses eyeglasses that beam a radio signal into the user's head to measure changes inside the closed mouth. They sa…
    - 3 hours ago 3 Nov 26, 12:22pm -
  • newIowa can't keep Krampus out of its Capitol, judge rules
    The state of Iowa rubber stamps religious groups' requests to hold events on the Capitol grounds. But for the last three years it has rejected the Satanic Temple's request to hold an event with caroling, coloring pages, making ornaments, and a Krampu…
    - 3 hours ago 3 Nov 26, 11:51am -
  • newNext year in Jerusalem, asshole!
    Convicted felon and perpetual grifter Donald Trump has offered Americans an exit strategy I think we can all agree on. "If people ever got tired of me in the U.S., I'll move to Israel and become prime minister," he said Tuesday during a Fox & Friends…
    - 3 hours ago 3 Nov 26, 11:46am -
  • newThe RNC's closing economic argument: however bad things are, Democrats are worse
    RNC Chairman Joe Gruters responds to questions about the economy with a statement that his party is running against "communism." Republican leadership has not shown an understanding of communism, socialism, or really any economic model other than "gr…
    - 3 hours ago 3 Nov 26, 11:39am -
  • newNo, the study behind "76% of honey is fake" didn't find 76% fake honey
    YouTuber Zackary Smigel was freaked out by the alarming online claim that 76% of supermarket honey is fake and found something better: the statistic itself has been badly abused. The 76% number traces back to a 2011 examination of 60 jars that found…
    - 4 hours ago 3 Nov 26, 11:12am -
  • newWord, Excel, and PowerPoint for $119.97, with no renewal notice next year
    TL;DR: Get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for Mac or PC with a one-time purchase of Microsoft Office 2024 Home, now $119.97 (reg. $149.99).Microsoft 365 bills you every year, whether you opened Excel daily or twice to split a dinner check. —…
    - 5 hours ago 3 Nov 26, 10:00am -
  • newRobert Fludd's "Black Square" is a 17th-century picture of nothing
    The occult philosopher Robert Fludd created this image in the 17th century. It is called Black Square and quite literally represents nothing. The medium is not known for certain, but it is guessed to be an engraving. View this post on…
    - 8 hours ago 3 Nov 26, 7:15am -

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