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After working at my desk with increasingly annoying lower back pain, I tried a memory foam foot rest pillow, and it's made a difference in my daily comfort. Most days I use it as a standard foot rest, but when I'm feeling fidgety (which is often), I ...

TL; DR: The TREBLAB X-Open earbuds give you crisp, dynamic audio and noise cancellation, without drowning out the world around you. While there are definitely moments where we all wish we could shut off the world's audio, tuning out completely at ...

A new movie from Guillermo del Toro is cause for celebration. With Netflix's release of the first trailer for the horror director's Frankenstein, we're ready to party. While the film won't be streaming until November, from what's on offer here, it's ...

Some sad news out of San Antonio, Texas today: Jonathan Joss, best known for veining John Redcorn on King of the Hill and appearing on Parks and Recreation as Ken Hotate, has been shot dead. According to a spokesperson for the San Antonio Police ...

Are you struggling to make sense of today's overwhelming global challenges? You might find strange comfort in the work of H.P. Lovecraft, whose century-old tales of cosmic horror feel relevant to our modern anxieties. A new interview from Five Books ...

Matthew Tyson's iarticle on InfoWorld, "AI didn't kill Stack Overflow," is a post-mortem on what really happened to the once-thriving software developer Q&A community. While generative AI delivered a blow to Stack Overflow, the platform had been in ...

For a show that pokes so heavily at the sprawling, tangled mass of IP that is the MCU, The Boys often feels like it's on the verge of becoming the monster it fights -- it is produced by Amazon, after all. -- Read the rest The post Gen V season 2 ...

From layout choices to advanced algorithms, this video shares the secrets of drive-thru science. There should be no surprise that chain restaurants have invested a significant amount in drive-thru architecture, design, and marketing to maximize the ...

The older I get, the more I become convinced that the best thing for me is to move the hell away from everyone. Someplace quiet, deep in the woods, with naught but some billionaire jerk's Satellite Internet technology and an unkindness of ravens to ...

Here's a short fable about a lawyer used quick thinking to save his career. From How to torture your mind; paradoxes, fallacies, dilemmas, figures, and word wonders by Ralph L. Woods (1969): Two business partners placed $20,000 in the hands of a ...