Summer vacation season has faded away, but you can still squeeze in microadventures like camping. Here are some tips to help you prepare for your next fall camping trip. These tips are meant to guide those looking for a low-key tent experience with some hiking involved, but not wilderness trek status.
A lot of restaurants will give you something for free on your birthday, and with the right approach so will a lot of bars. The thing is, your birthday only comes around once a year, so this video shares some social engineering maneuvers to ensure you have a very happy un-birthday.
It's hard to retrieve coins and other things that fall into the little gap between the car seat and the door or the gear box. Here's a quick, DIY solution that costs a dollar and almost no time.
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We talk a lot about how great rechargeable batteries are, and have a few brands we love, but we've never polled all of you to learn about some great options we're missing out on, until now. Tell us, which AA rechargeables are the best?
With the holidays just around the corner, there's no doubt we'll all be looking to save a buck when we're out shopping. Whether that means clipping coupons or searching for the best deals online, there are a variety of tactics you can use to save.
If you want fresh ramen, you can make your own , but if you're in no mood to roll out pasta, grab a pack of Angel Hair and some baking soda. You'll get the flavor and texture of fresh ramen without resorting to packaged.
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When you apply for a job you'll often give them basic information like employment history. Think twice before giving out that Social Security Number. The job application could be a scam.
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While Frankenfoods are taking over the pastry business, what with all the cronuts and doughssants (made that one up) going around, one bakery figured, why not embrace the hype?
As Gothamist reports, the Nutellasagna started as a new dish developed during a Brooklyn bakery’s Jump The Shark summer, where they tried to get ahead of the Frankenfood trend by making their own weird dishes.
All you need to know is what Robicelli’s pastry maker says about the answer to all your hopes, prayers and dreams:
It’s layers of buttery lasagna noodles, cannoli custard, copious amounts of Nutella, crushed roasted hazelnuts and chopped chocolate, with some marshmallows on top for additional sweetness. They’ll be sold in foil catering pans, so you can pop it in the oven at home and serve warm Nutellasagna after dinner. Or you can eat it cold or room temp—totally up to you. No fancy packaging—this is straight South Brooklyn guinea.
People who live in NYC can order a pan of the dessert lasagna from the bakery starting the week of Christmas, while everyone else will just have to step up to the bar and create your own. Dessert lasagna, let’s make this a thing, people.
All I Want For Christmas Is Nutellasagna [Gothamist]
The North Korean government has been openly critical of the upcoming Sony-distributed comedy The Interview, in which James Franco and Seth Rogen are tasked with assassinating Kim Jong-Un.
Re/code cites two sources “close to the investigation” as saying that Sony will soon point the finger in North Korea’s direction.
If so, will it name the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as the source of the hack, or merely claim that the attack was perpetrated by the country, whose leadership is none too happy about the upcoming Sony-distributed comedy The Interview, in which James Franco and Seth Rogen are tasked with assassinating DPRK Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un
A rep for Sony would only say that “The investigation continues into this very sophisticated cyber attack.”
Imagine you’re just about to sit down and enjoy a snack at your local bakery when, mere feet away, a truck plows right through the front of the building. If you’re like me, you’d run screaming with a howl so high-pitched that dogs would cry for miles around. But not so for one customer of a bakery in Cincinnati.
Around 30 seconds into the security camera footage above (NOTE: It can get pretty loud, so you’ll probably want to turn your volume down), you see a truck enter the frame — and then enter the building — creating a drive-thru lane where none had existed before.
But you’ll also see a man who was only a couple feet away from the crash when it happened calmly walk away from the scene as if someone had just spilled a drink and caused a minor annoyance.
The man tells WCPO-TV that it played out like a slow-motion action sequence from a movie and says that the force from the collision felt like an explosion.
The driver of the truck reportedly suffered a medical emergency, causing him to lose control of his vehicle and plow through the front of the bakery. He was found conscious by emergency responders and taken to a nearby hospital.
And while the customer may have avoided a horrible close call, the bakery owner says he may end up having to close the business during the heavily busy Christmas season.
Here’s what the crash looked like from the outside of the building:
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“Hello, I’m an actor,” an actor says in a video for Swedish bank Nordnet. “I’ve been paid $8,000 to tell you how great Nordnet is compared to other banks. “hey chose me because I’m more handsome than their CEO, and because I look successful in a suit.”
He goes on from there, listing the bank’s various selling points while explaining the motions of appearing like you’re in charge of a bank where you talk to people and shake hands while laughing.
It’s exactly what I imagined Business Jobs to be like as a kid, so I’m convinced this is an accurate portrayal. In any case, I laughed.
Not the actual McChicken involved in the incident, but we’re guessing it looked similar (photo: Morton Fox)
The Des Moines Register has the story of a 21-year-old man arrested yesterday for allegedly assaulting his pregnant wife with a McChicken sandwich from McDonald’s.
The man told police that his wife woke him up (at 1 p.m., no less) offering him the sandwich. And because he “doesn’t like them,” he got all pissy and threw the McChicken at her. To prove that he’s a true a-hole, he then picked up the bun and tossed that at the woman he pledged to spend the rest of his life with. The wife told police he actually smashed the bun into her face.
When she went to the bathroom to de-McChicken herself, the husband followed her and — for reasons that remain unclear — shot video of her with his phone. Police say that the footage shows the wife knocking the phone out of her husband’s hand.
Police believe that the husband was deliberately trying to provoke his wife into grabbing at his phone in an attempt to make her look aggressive, perhaps to bolster his claim that she assaulted him first.
The husband was arrested on charges of simple domestic assault.
The Homarus Americanus species of lobster has been showing up in the pots of fishermen in Yorkshire, reports the Daily Mail, which is especially bad for the lobsters as they can’t breed with local species and likely won’t survive long in UK waters.
As for how they’re getting there, one theory experts are entertaining is that do-gooder cruise ship passengers are ordering live lobsters and then telling waiters to throw them overboard in a misguided attempt to save the creatures.
Some of the lobsters are showing up with their claws still bound with rubber bands, but that’s only one problem — they could be bringing disease with them, and even if they do mate with local species, their offspring will be infertile, a rep from a fishing industry group explains.
“We think the most likely route is that they are getting thrown overboard from cruise ships,” he said. “People buy lobster for dinner, feel sorry for it and ask the waiter to chuck it over. In the grand scheme of things that’s a very small level of re-introduction.”
If you’ve got the itch to become a lobster savior, it’s best you don’t bother, he adds.
“They won’t last much longer than if the passengers had eaten them for dinner.”
The chief research and development officer at The Hershey Co. told the Associated Press that right now the company uses a mix of sugar and high-fructose corn syrup, but now it’s “moving more toward sugar” in its products.
“We take into account what consumers want. And consumers are telling us between the two, they prefer sugar,” Will Papa told the AP.
Although there’s not enough evidence to prove that high-fructose corn syrup is any worse for people than regular sugar, some consumers say they avoid it over its reputation for boosting weight gain and diabetes.
Hershey said in a statement that right now it’s in the exploratory phase of possibly replacing corn syrup, a process that “is just under way.” Translation — if corn syrup is going away, Hershey can’t or won’t say when that’ll happen yet.
Right now, Almond Joy, Fifth Avenue, Take 5 and York all use corn syrup, while classic Hershey bars are made with sugar, a rep for the company explains.
“Our aim is to be transparent with our consumers about the ingredients we use in our products. Once we have more information to share, we will be back in touch,” Hershey said in a statement.
Hershey explores removal of corn syrup [Associated Press]
Fairfax County adopt a pet Washington Post Paisley, a 6-year-old Rottweiler mix, is available from the Fairfax County Animal Shelter. Gillian, a sweet cat who just finished raising three kittens , is available from the Humane Society of Fairfax County. Snookie, a spayed 8- to 9-month-old cat ... and more » |
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While mail-order spectacles outfits like Warby Parker are growing in popularity, most people who wear glasses don’t get them from a standalone optician or from their own doctor. Most people visit the optical store within a discount store like Walmart, Costco, or possibly even Sears.
Our in-focus colleagues down the hall at Consumer Reports put together some tips for saving money on glasses without sacrificing quality. Remember to ignore designer names: no matter what celebrity or fashion brand has their name on a pair of frames, they probably have come from the same place. Most frames that you find in stores, regardless of the name slapped on them, are made by the Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica, which also happens to own familiar American mall brands LensCrafters and Sunglass Hut.
One potentially useful piece of information: some shops will fit lenses in a pair of frames that you’ve purchased elsewhere, for a small fee. Walmart charges $10 above the cost of the lenses for this; Costco charges $18. Those are subject to change, so check with different stores to find the best option.
How to get a great-looking pair of cheap glasses [Consumer Reports]
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Yes, this is the level of service that your cat thinks he deserves, but is reserved for people who have around $67,000 to spare instead of paying for a first-class ticket. “They don’t want to go to Aspen or their holiday or to their second home without their pets being on board,” the CEO of charter company Jet Edge International explained to Bloomberg News. Of course.
It’s understandable why people who care about their pets would want to avoid sending them via cargo, but some pet owners seek the ultimate in air-travel madness: Bloomberg cites the example of a divorced couple who share custody of their dog, and send it back and forth across the country every other month at a cost of $50,000 per flight. Of course, the dog has to have a nanny as well.
Luxury Jets Pamper Pets With Pilaf, Room to Roam: Globetrotter [Bloomberg]
