Home Alone 2: Lost in New York star Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury. While the indictment remains under seal, and we don’t officially know the specific charges, it is believed to involve Trump’s hush payments made to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.
As trees and plants start to bloom around us, so too do pesky weeds. Weeds are an annual frustration for many outdoor plant and gardening enthusiasts, but deterring them doesn’t need to be an expensive or laborious endeavor. In fact, you can use items you already have junking up your house.
I love tension rods. No, really. I rent my apartment, so I’m always weary of doing anything too invasive or permanent to it, so screwing rods into the wall to hold up my curtains is out of the question to me. And tension rods are the perfect versatile—and temporary—tool that can do much more than hold up your shower…
Cottage cheese is important to me. Without it, I would devolve into a hangry, pouty pile of woman, and I would definitely have a hard time meeting my daily protein goal—a goal I am still getting used to, even after a year of weight training. The concept of eating to get stronger feels novel, which is weird because…
The cheeseball is an irresistible snack. It’s their versatility and inviting shape that make them so alluring. You can make them sweet or savory, grapefruit-sized or personal, and it turns out they provide a perfect canvas for theming. Let’s start with Easter and turn the cheeseball into a snack worthy of any egg hunt.
For an undisclosed amount of time, Subway is offering buy one, get one free footlongs when you use the code “BOGOFTL” at checkout. You can use the code as many times as you can, as long as they are different orders—but it only works at participating locations, and figuring out whether your closest Subway is …
Malware is an unfortunate reality in the digital world we’ve built for ourselves. Since all of our devices run on code, bad actors can use malicious code to take over those devices, or install programs that steal information from them. However, some bad actors don’t write this code themselves. Rather, they pay others…
We’ve all been ensnared by tourist traps, those vacation “must-sees” that turn out to be overcrowded, overpriced, and inauthentic should-have-skippeds. If you’re planning your summer vacation, here’s how to avoid the biggest and worst tourist traps, whether you’re traveling in the United States or internationally.
One thing I do not like about myself is my tendency to get intensely into something, only to abandon it with little to no warning. If you’ve been reading Lifehacker for any appreciable amount of time, you have seen me do this with several columns. But I feel a resurgence coming on with Will It Waffle?. After I waffled…
When I was a teen, I became the kid who transferred schools. You know the type: someone who lived in transition, changing schools, neighborhoods, and friends often. At its worst, I changed high schools five times in three years. And like many things at that age, the transfers were for reasons out of my control.
I’ve been fooled by the headline “Easiest (meal name) Ever.” It’s wasn’t pretty. The ingredients were purchased. The prep work was done. Sadly, the joke was on me–the recipe was, in fact, not easy at all. It’s an attractive word and hard to resist, and although the recipe may have been rote for the creator, “easy”…
Selling furniture is a great way to clear out your space and make some extra cash (which, realistically, you’ll put toward new furniture), but it’s not really an intuitive process. While there are plenty of apps out there dedicated to managing the sale of whatever you want to sell, it’s hard to know which ones to…
This summer has the potential to be a nightmare for those looking to travel, domestically or abroad. A combination of pandemic-related problems that permanently changed airlines are coming back to haunt travelers who once enjoyed discounted prices in past summers, along with inflation and higher demand, are all…
People like to say that weed makes you stupider, and I’m sure it doesn’t help if you’re studying differential equations or polymer chemistry (both of which I opted out of in college), but I’ve never found it hindered me in my line of work. If I’m so stupid, how did I invent a new kind of cheese fry?
There are a couple of bag opening styles you can use when you don’t have a bowl–the fold-under bowl, or the puncture-and-twist method– but not all snacks are chips, and some come in smaller packaging that might not fare as well with those other techniques. When it comes to sharing a bag of snacks with friends in a…
Here’s a familiar travel scenario: You just checked out of your hotel, but you have a while before your flight. That’s fine, because you have plenty of time to relax and explore the city before you leave. But just before you step out into the world for a fun afternoon as a tourist, you realize you have a problem: What…
To me, a smartwatch is the ideal alarm clock. It can be silent, so you don’t need to wake sleeping partners, and also connected to your wrist, so you’re likely to feel the taps gently rise you from the most interesting of dreams. It’s nearly perfect. And yet, the Apple Watch had a fatal flaw that made using it a risky…
It’s nice to pack a little treat for yourself as you’re getting ready for a vacation. Maybe that’s a snack for the road, or an outfit you never wear at home but that will be perfect at your destination. And sometimes it’s a book you’re excited to read but haven’t cracked open. You might want to rethink that last one.
Out of all the things I’ve put in my waffle iron, cheese is probably my favorite. Pressing brie, cheese curds, halloumi, and the like between the hot, divoted grates melts it while creating crispy and crunchy peaks and valleys, for a pleasing textural contrast. I’m also a big fan of waffling frozen convenience foods…
If you like planets, this is your week. Five of the solar system’s most celebrated satellites—Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, and Mars— will appear all at once, lined up right with the moon.
No one wants the IRS to contact them. You hope to deal with them once a year at tax time, without worrying about audits or mistakes on your numbers. So, if one day, an email from the Internal Revenue Service shows up in your inbox, you’re bound to take it seriously. Well, don’t. In fact, you have my permission to…
It’s pretty clear by now that ChatGPT is not good at being creative, understanding a subject area, or pretty much anything else we associate with “intelligence,” artificial or otherwise. As I noticed when I tried to use it as a personal trainer:
Ring’s cheapest video doorbell just got cheaper: The Ring Video Doorbell Wired is currently 40% off, dropping from its $65 price to $39. This is the 2021 version, and as the name implies, it is wired. The Ring Video Doorbell Wired is currently on sale at Amazon, BestBuy, and Target. It is at its lowest price, …
I have never worked in a professional kitchen, but I have had relations with several people who have, and I’ve enjoyed a few brief glimpses into that world. These glimpses were rendered somewhat blurry by shift drinks, but the thing that blew my mind was how much prep work it took to run a restaurant. Beyond the…
Phone calls sound like crap. They sound better than they used to, but if you need to rely on a special alphabet system for separating B’s from D’s, it’s not looking great. A new iPhone feature aims to tackle this problem by boosting your voice and reducing background sounds. You just need to know where to find it.
Baked oats are the breakfast cake you didn’t know you needed. Barring a smidge of baking powder, you don’t use anything other than what you’d normally add to an average bowl of hot oatmeal. Finally, oatmeal that doesn’t totally suck. But there’s also a baked oat for those with a higher standard than “doesn’t totally…
March Madness is beginning its final stretch, with the Elite 8 phase of the tournament starting on March 25. As teams get eliminated, the competition and intensity increases—but that’s not necessarily the case for ticket prices. If you live in some of these cities or are close enough to take a short trip, you don’t…
TikTok is the app in the U.S. right now. There’s a good chance you use it yourself. (Perhaps you just broke away from a binge to come read this article.) But the app’s fate, in the U.S. at least, is uncertain: Lawmakers seem poised, if not ravenous, to either force a sale of the app to an American company, or to ban…
Bacon makes everything better. I’m certainly not the first to say it, but that salty, smoky, meat strip is hard to resist. It seems, however, that bacon has met its match. The banana, and its cousins, make everything better too. Luckily for us, they’re not enemies. In fact, when combined, they make the best snack I’ve…
What do you do when you feel undervalued, unsupported, and unhappy at work? One way to harness your anger is to send out a flurry of job applications—you don’t care where your resume is going, just so long as you’re doing something with all the anger you feel at your current gig.
So many of us are unhappy with our current employers that some clever person coined the term “rage applying” to describe the newfound zeal for searching for a new gig. The term has been trending on TikTok—but applying too quickly for an opportunity that seems too good to be true can also put you at risk of being roped…
Some mornings I feel like I have nothing edible in my kitchen, usually after a missed grocery run. This time, my options were my sometimes-nemesis, oatmeal, or the dregs of Raisin Bran. (Not all cereal is bland and flavorless, but Raisin Bran really toes the line.) To save myself from a morning of chomping while…
There are over 14,000 species of mushrooms on Earth, ranging from poisonous death caps to delicious morels to mushrooms of the psychedelic variety. I’m sure you’ve seem them growing from soil, cow paddies, rotten wood, and just about everywhere else, and maybe thought, “How hard could it be to grow edible mushrooms at…
Broccoli is a journeyman vegetable. Consistent and dependable, it does exactly what you ask of it every time, without requiring much fanfare or an overly precious cooking method. The stalks can be cooked in a myriad of ways, most of which are pretty good, but roasting has the best effort-to-reward ratio—especially if…
I have been nuking food since childhood, but no one ever taught me the Rules of Microwaving. I learned not to put any metal in one when I went to re-heat a foil-wrapped Wendy’s hamburger, and I learned the dangers of superheating liquids in chemistry class. No one warned me about chili peppers, however.
The collapses of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank earlier this month were the second- and third-biggest bank failures in U.S. history. While those institutions catered mostly to the tech industry, it’s natural to feel a sense of unease. The question on many bank customers’ minds: Is my money safe?
When you fire off an important email, you don’t get to know when the recipient opens it. You have to sit in front of your computer like a dope waiting for their response. Some emailers out there, however, don’t have to wait for a response to know the message was received. In fact, they can track exactly when you open…
Maybe you had to unexpectedly foot the bill at dinner, or you had to fill your gas tank before your paycheck hit this week. If you aren’t keeping a close eye on your checking account, you may find yourself overdrawing and slipping into a negative balance—and when you try to spend more money than you have in your…
Domino’s pizza is about a week late with their “Pi Day” deals, but better late than never when it comes to pizza: They are now offering 50% off all pizzas on their website until Sunday, March 26. The deal is good for any size; it will save you about $10 per large pizza (they usually go for $20).
The Switch may have succeeded the 3DS and Wii U, but that doesn’t mean the former systems are useless. Both Nintendo’s handheld and console have plenty of reasons to exist in 2023, whether it’s the extensive Game Boy library on the 3DS, or the Wii U’s ability to play every Zelda title on console. If you don’t have…
We all have a few less than fond memories of the worst containers we have ever been forced to barf into. As a kid, my parents would sometimes remember to bring a sick bucket on road trips. But sometimes there was no bucket on hand, and I remember hurriedly being handed a grocery bag anytime I said I was feeling…
To start with: No. You should not have (or perform) a lobotomy. It would be impossible to find a surgeon willing to take on the procedure, and whatever is wrong with you would be better handled through other means. Hypothetically, however, you could have a friend perform a lobotomy on you with a few tools and without…
The M2 Mac mini is the newest entry in Apple’s line of small and surprisingly minimalist desktop computers. And right now, Amazon is selling the 512GB M2 Mac mini (not to be confused with the M2 Pro) for its lowest price since it released this past January, at $700—a $99 discount from the $799 list price..
I can’t think of a single egg preparation more finicky than poaching. Do it correctly and you’ll get a plump, oval balloon you could easily mistake for an orb of fresh mozzarella, but do it the wrong way and you’ll end up with a hurricane of wispy egg white surrounding a naked, boiled egg yolk. Luckily, the OG…
Something wonderful happened recently: My teenage son stole some of my food. He is ravenous, but also considerate. So when I said, “Fine, you can have some of my leftover chili, but you’ll have to replace it,” he agreed. And thus he began to prep (some of) his own meals.
While you probably won’t get rich doing it, there are more opportunities out there than you might think to earn money by recording audiobooks or writing book reviews or summaries. If you love to read anyway, you might consider turning your hobby into a side hustle since you’re already doing the bulk of the work.
Most of us don’t want to think about cancer when we feel fine and there’s a new season of Ted Lasso out, but talking to your doctor and getting screened (aka “thinking about cancer”) can reduce your risk significantly. There are more than 200 types of cancer, ranging in severity from “you’ll probably be fine”…
This post is part of our Home Remedy Handbook, a tour of the landscape of home remedies from the iffy to the doctor-approved. Read more here.
This post is part of our Home Remedy Handbook, a tour of the landscape of home remedies from the iffy to the doctor-approved. Read more here.