The Critic’s Choice Awards air this evening at 7pm ET. The Irishman leads nominations this year, including a nomination for Best Picture where it’s competing against 1917, Jojo Rabbit, Little Women, Marriage Story, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Jok…
Lees meerA few years ago my friend group discovered the dice game Quixx. If you haven’t played it, I highly recommend it. Essentially, you roll a collection of differently-colored dice and then try to mark off numbers on a score sheet based on the totals.Rea…
Lees meerFires are currently still burning in Australia, threatening homes, residents, and the country’s unique wildlife. It’s a huge fight, and an expensive one. United is offering MileagePlus users a tiny incentive to make a donation to help fight the fire…
Lees meerNvidia and Asus announced at this year’s CES that they’ve created an esports-focused computer monitor capable of running at 360Hz in 1080p. You probably don’t need one, even if you’re getting better and better at CS:GO and feel like this is the year…
Lees meerI once helped a man search for an engagement ring in knee-deep snow, in the dark, in middle-of-nowhere Iceland. As we sifted through the snow with our mittens while someone distracted his girlfriend, another in our search party (our tour group) chuc…
Lees meerWe are firmly in the middle of bad winter, that portion of the year that is cold, damp, and grey, without warm seasonal cheer to balance the ill effects. I don’t know how you cope with ill effects, but I’ve heard drinking gin helps sometimes.Read mo…
Lees meerAs someone who actively seeks out and writes about parenting hacks every day, I’m always looking for shortcuts and tricks to make your lives (and my own) a tiny bit easier. But not all hacks are created equal, and a hack that works brilliantly for o…
Lees meerShutting down or restarting your PC every now and then is a good thing. It can even solve minor performance issues by clearing temporary files and freeing up memory—a classic troubleshooting technique—but many of us neglect this simple act of tech u…
Lees meerThe first full moon of the year rises today, January 10th, which also brings the first lunar eclipse of the year.Read more...
Lees meerOver at the Wall Street Journal, writer Katharine Bindley asked us to admit one thing to ourselves: Somewhere, in the back of a closet or an attic, we all have a box of unused cords and cables. Collected throughout a lifetime, their individual purpo…
Lees meerEvery year, for at least the past four years, I have resolved to spend less time on Twitter. Read more...
Lees meerIf you’re on the lookout for a good deal on a flight, it’s a hell of a guessing game as to when to pull the trigger, given the daily and even hourly changes in price on booking sites. Fortunately, data analysts at Hopper, a travel app, recently rev…
Lees meerThe wedge salad is often dismissed as nothing more than a vehicle for blue cheese and crispy bits of cured pork. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. In fact, I think a delivery system for cheese and bacon is what lettuce should strive to…
Lees meerIf I look up from my office computer in southeast Portland I see a patchwork of brick buildings interspersed by evergreen patches of forest, all pushing up against a lead-colored sky. It’s winter in the Pacific Northwest, and we’re a couple months i…
Lees meerJeopardy! is holding a tournament this week between three of its greatest players: Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, and James Holzhaur. The event, called Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time, officially kicked off Wednesday evening on ABC, but will also air…
Lees meerEven though you probably just updated your Firefox desktop browser to version 72 (released Tuesday), make sure you run one more update to nab a special patch that Mozilla released yesterday. It fixes a zero-day vulnerability that, if exploited, coul…
Lees meer2020 is off to an incredibly shitty start—what with the destructive bushfires in Australia, ramped-up tensions between the U.S. and Iran, and ongoing earthquakes in Puerto Rico. If you’re someone who enjoys staying on top of world events, keeping up…
Lees meerAs much fun as vacations can be, actually planning your travel can be tedious and anxiety-inducing. Sure, an all-inclusive package or a travel agent might make the process easier, but that’s going to get pricey, and anyway, some of us prefer to mak…
Lees meerHaving a baby is a pricey endeavor. Health care costs and the expense of getting prepared for a baby’s first year of life take a hefty bit of coin. As babies grow, their needs change, too. There’s no way to anticipate how quickly your child will tra…
Lees meerIf you’ve spent the past few months indulging in everything from gifts to new clothes to more expensive versions of your favorite foods, shifting back to your everyday spending habits might be more difficult than you realize.Read more...
Lees meerOn Tuesday, an earthquake measuring a 6.4 magnitude struck the island of Puerto Rico, unleashing a series of aftershocks that have leveled homes and structures on the island; this earthquake closely followed a 5.8 magnitude earthquake which also str…
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