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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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  • newPocketMage, an e-ink PDA inspired by wizards
    The PocketMage is a retro-styled e-ink PDA ("personal digital assistant," remember?) with a clamshell case, a tactile QWERTY keyboard, and a "wizard-inspired" operating system built for notes, journaling and calendars. At under 4 by 3 inches, it actu…
    - 2 hours ago 8 Jul 26, 10:14am -
  • newCollection of pixel-art skylines from old arcade and video games
    Pixel Skylines collects background graphics from old video games that depict city skylines. The simple, grid-like design of skyscrapers lends them to representation as pixel art (faves that age me: 1987's Double Dragon, below, and 1988's Robocop, abo…
    - 5 hours ago 8 Jul 26, 7:27am -
  • newStop PDF headaches — convert, merge, and edit files in minutes with AcePDF for a one-time $24
    TL;DR: Convert, edit, and unlock PDFs into Word, Excel, and more with AcePDF Converter & Editor for $23.99 (MSRP $99.99) with promo code EXTRA20 until July 19, including OCR and batch tools in a lifetime license.Working with PDFs can get frustrat…
    - 20 hours ago 7 Jul 26, 4:00pm -
  • newRussians returning to 1 horsepower amid gasoline shortages
    Russian villagers have begun buying horses instead of cars as the country's gasoline crisis deepens, The Moscow Times reported Monday, citing claims by horse breeders there. Demand for workhorses has risen severalfold in recent weeks, sparing about 1…
    - 21 hours ago 7 Jul 26, 3:23pm -
  • newPoet's copyright lawsuit against Taylor Swift tossed again
    A federal judge in Florida dismissed with prejudice a copyright lawsuit brought against Taylor Swift by self-published poet Kimberly Marasco, ruling (not for the first time!) that the material Marasco claimed Swift stole is not protected by copyright…
    - 22 hours ago 7 Jul 26, 2:20pm -
  • new"Knockoff" browser add-on filters junk brands from Amazon results
    Knockoff is "Amazon, without the knockoffs": a browser extension for Chrome that filters out the gibberish factory brands that are typically favoried over quality products in the online retailer's search results. What's left, creator Josh Pigford wri…
    - 22 hours ago 7 Jul 26, 1:46pm -
  • newIn 1964, a Dutch librarian drilled a hole in his own skull to get permanently high
    According to Bart Huges, the Dutch librarian attended medical school in Amsterdam "but was refused a degree due to his advocacy of marijuana use." In 1964 he published a scroll arguing that trepanation — drilling a hole in the skull — "could be u…
    - 23 hours ago 7 Jul 26, 12:44pm -
  • newFor 1,000 years people have seen strange lights on the Moon
    According to the science of transient lunar phenomena, observers have reported brief lights, colors, and hazes on the Moon for at least a thousand years, and astronomers still cannot fully explain them. The British astronomer Patrick Moore coined the…
    - 23 hours ago 7 Jul 26, 12:40pm -
  • newIn 1987 Kowloon Walled City packed 33,000 people into six and a half acres
    By 1987, Kowloon Walled City held an estimated 33,000 residents on 2.6 hectares — "approximately 1.2 million inhabitants per square kilometer (3 million per square mile)," according to Wikipedia, making it one of the most densely populated places o…
    - 23 hours ago 7 Jul 26, 12:36pm -
  • newA volcano froze crops worldwide in 1453
    According to the record of the 1452/1453 mystery eruption, a volcano erupted somewhere on Earth powerful enough to inject about 11 megatons of sulfur into the stratosphere — "roughly one-third that of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora" — and no…
    - 24 hours ago 7 Jul 26, 12:28pm -

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