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  • Flex 2 Battery Life

    I fully charged it when I first received my Flex 2 and find that the battery lasts about 2-3 days if I’m lucky. It also takes forever to charge even if it’s already at medium. I’m upset I had to… Read More ›

  • How to Sell a Billion-Dollar Myth

    Some of these articles are written with a dash of knowing humor, because our French Girl obsession has become something of a joke. (Last year, The Cut skewered its ubiquity in a post titled “97 Things You Can Do Like… Read More ›

  • LeVar Burton Reads

    Lose yourself in a great story with LeVar Burton Reads. In each episode, host LeVar Burton (Reading Rainbow, Star Trek, Roots) hand-picks a different piece of short fiction, and reads it to you… Subscribe here. Excellent.

  • Are Pop-Tarts Ravioli?

    Even though the great “is a hot dog a sandwich” debate is far from settled, another grand food comparison has entered the eatery arena: Pop-Tarts are most possibly, or definitely, related to ravioli. At least, that’s the latest ridiculous food… Read More ›

  • Your phone is a dæmon

    The podcast above made me think a little. In the film The Golden Compass, the characters have dæmons that are animals who are always with them. They share pain, emotions and everything else and must always be together and protect each… Read More ›

  • All I Got Was This New SIM Card

    Once I returned home I checked my email and saw two new emails. The first is from Google with a security reset code. I did a quick phishing check and the URLs were legitimate. The second email I see was… Read More ›

  • Bradley

    Six-year-old Bradley Lowery, whose plight touched the lives of many people, has died after a long illness. The Sunderland fan was diagnosed with neuroblastoma – a rare type of cancer – when he was 18 months old. Bradley went on… Read More ›

  • Timeless Apple

    Graphic designer Pablo Larrocha has cleverly inserted modern Apple products in classic scenes and the results are somehow not silly. Thanks to Bob for the link.

  • Jawbone finally goes out of business

    In May of last year, speaker and fitness tracker company Jawbone ended production of its fitness trackers and started seeking a buyer for its speaker business, leading to speculation that the company was going out of business. Jawbone denied claims… Read More ›

  • InspiroBot

    I am an artificial intelligence dedicated to generating unlimited amounts of unique inspirational quotes for endless enrichment of pointless human existence. Some of the quotes are more amusing than inspirational, but it’s still worth a try. You can test it… Read More ›