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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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  • newMore reflecting pool nonsense
    Trumpian United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro has a very weird idea about "sabotage." In a desperate attempt to keep her boss- not the Attorney General, but Donald Trump- happy, Pirro is somehow trying to keep open a doo…
    - 42 mins ago 20 Aug 26, 2:13pm -
  • newVaccination rates show what leadership is for
    California's narrower guardrails on whatever exemption anti-vaxxers are currently using to reduce herd immunity work, while Florida's willingness to nod and wink at doubters has its MMR vaccination rate for youngsters falling like a rock.Nationally,…
    - 1 hour ago 20 Aug 26, 1:55pm -
  • newPlaintiff hid prompts in court filings, hoping AI was calling the shots
    In a first, Connecticut judge Walter Spader Jr. issued a decision [PDF] sanctioning a plaintiff for "use of prompt-injection" in their electronic filings. [via Ars Technica] "The Court identified text that had been formatted to be invisible to a hum…
    - 1 hour ago 20 Aug 26, 1:44pm -
  • newMr. T's extraordinary life gets the Netflix Untold treatment
    Mr. T's The Man with the Gold is one of my treasured books, so Netflix finally spending some Untold money on Laurence Tureaud feels like someone finally got something right over there.In a time when Netflix is pissing money away on Melania and rehab…
    - 2 hours ago 20 Aug 26, 1:03pm -
  • newAn edible mushroom causes visions of tiny people. Nobody knows why
    Remember that Chinese mushroom that can cause you to hallucinate tiny people? The best guess for this bizarre effect is that the mushrooms contain some kind of psychoactive substance unknown to science, rather than cultural conditioning, because the…
    - 2 hours ago 20 Aug 26, 12:46pm -
  • newSomeone ranked every Ikea product by assembly complexity
    The IKEA Complexity Index ranks IKEA's product line by the number of steps required to assemble them.At the top of the list is the PAX Corner wardrobe ($1,755), which requires 236 steps to build, contains 743 parts, and comes with a 248-page user ma…
    - 2 hours ago 20 Aug 26, 12:45pm -
  • newAn Illinois man built all six Magic Kingdom lands out of Lego in his basement
    There's a replica of Disney World's Magic Kingdom in a basement in O'Fallon, Illinois. But unless you are a Minifig, you can only view it from above.Doug Schieppe started building it from Lego bricks six years ago during COVID, after his family trip…
    - 2 hours ago 20 Aug 26, 12:28pm -
  • newMuseum heist bags four Renaissance paintings, with two more dumped in the street
    Four Renaissance paintings by Antonello da Messina, including three of five surviving panels of his San Gregorio Polyptych, were heisted from the Regional Interdisciplinary Museum of Messina in Sicily. The thieves came and went without triggering ala…
    - 3 hours ago 20 Aug 26, 12:17pm -
  • newJimmy Bond: In the first filmed version of James Bond, he was American
    In a post earlier this week, I wrote about a 1958 James Bond comic strip in which the cartoonist drew the character like he was drawing Sean Connery. But Connery wouldn't be cast as Bond for the first movie until four years later. — Read the rest…
    - 3 hours ago 20 Aug 26, 12:02pm -
  • newKindle update disables favorite slow reader trick

    - 3 hours ago 20 Aug 26, 12:01pm -