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Tequila is a spirit that a lot of people equate with shots, and consequently morning hangovers. In actuality, aged tequilas can be delicious to sip on straight or on the rocks, just like you might enjoy a nice, aged whisky.

When I was in elementary school I was briefly obsessed with mechanical music boxes. You know, the kind you have to wind up to get them to play. They’re simple and nice to have, and now you can make a digital version of one for yourself.

Procrastination is one of those things we all experience. Sometimes you may be procrastinating on calling a friend to deliver bad news, other times on finishing a work project. In all cases, what you’re procrastinating on likely needs to get done, more often sooner rather than later.

If you’ve been wanting to give your iPhone or iPad a little refresh, a new font can potentially be a way to do it. This week, Adobe’s Creative Cloud made 1,300 fonts available for free to anyone that downloads its Creative Cloud app from the App Store.

We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.

When Tiffany Brosius was 26 weeks pregnant, her feet began to swell. But the 37-year-old Atlanta mother says she didn’t think too much about it. After all, swelling in pregnancy is common. But then it started to travel up her body, so Brosius went to her provider where she discovered that she was experiencing…Read more...

A big topic on our many Democratic presidential debate stages this summer has been health care reform. Several candidates, including Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, have been pushing for Medicare for All, through which the government would provide our health coverage.

One of my favorite things about running Skillet is the relationships I’ve formed with the readers. Beyond the comments sections—which is a surprisingly chill corner of the internet—lovely people will often DM or email me with suggestions, requests, and recipes.Read more...

Google recently announced a few new features that give users more control over their data, including three new privacy options for Google Maps, YouTube, and Google Assistant, as well as a new tool for monitoring password security. Here’s a quick rundown of each of the new features, how to find them, and why you may…Read more...

A good insult is a demonstration of power. A bad insult is a demonstration of powerlessness. This is true whether you’re punching up or down. (I recommend you punch up.) If you want your insults to damage your enemy and not yourself, you need to insult strategically.

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Sunday, November 3 is National Sandwich Day. We cover a lot of “free food days” here, because we love you and we want you to be fed. So I need to admit to you up front that there are no free sandwiches on Sunday, at least without purchase of an equal or greater sandwich.

As the winter slowly descends upon us, it’s time for the annual tradition of hand-wringing, self-loathing, and maybe—just maybe—writing a novel in 30 days. National Novel Writing Month has become a beacon of hope each November for the many high achievers who desire to not only start, but also finish a draft of a novel…Read more...

I’ve been using the Exist app to track my activities and rate my moods for over half a year now, and one of my biggest unexpected takeaways was that the way I feel about my day often depends on how I spent the last hour of it.Read more...

Many people would say their biggest weakness is that they care too much.Read more...

We made it through October, which means the month of cardio intervals is over and we now get to lie on the floor, sweating and panting, and vowing to never do this again.Read more...

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Being strategic about what you say to your partner in front of your kids is pretty crucial. And most of that strategy involves what you don’t say. Around the time we realize that our kids are actually starting to understand our words, we’ve got to (mostly) rein in the cursing, we have to really consider how our word…Read more...

It’s November 1! And you know what that means—if you purchased an Apple product anytime on or after September 10, you earned yourself a free year-long trial to Apple’s streaming service. It t won’t just appear magically for you to access, however; you’ll have to activate it first.

There’s no better adrenaline rush than the kind that happens after you cancel plans last-minute. What once felt like a weight on your shoulders, bearing down on you with every passing hour, has disappeared. Suddenly, your time is yours again. We get it—you made plans with someone and something suddenly just came up.…Read more...

On a recent trip to Portugal, Porto stole my heart. I spent my nights traversing its narrow alleys, tall bridges, and challenging staircases. It’s a beautiful city with approachable, down-to-earth culinary roots. Seemingly every restaurant in the city does a version of Francesinha, making it the city’s loosely…Read more...

The recent iOS 13.2 update introduced some new HomePod features to the iPhone, but many users report that installing the patch left their HomePod speakers bricked. Apple pulled the update in response and promised to release a new build without the HomePod-ruining bug.Read more...

Twitter will ban all political topics from its paid ads, Jack Dorsey announced this week. But that means “issue” ads too, which that anything can be banned if the folks in charge (or, more likely, an algorithm that they train) considers the topic too political.Read more...

If you’ve been considering relocating, you might want to consider Tulsa.

If you parent a toddler, you probably say the word “no” a lot. It comes with the territory of caring for a being that is constantly doing things that are unsafe while also making frequent and repeated unreasonable requests. I am not advocating that we never tell our children “no.” Toddler-parenting very often calls…Read more...

Mayuck is helping his younger brother who just started college with a car purchase. Naturally, he thinks his sibling isn’t all that smart when it comes to cars and he wants to find him something simple, cheap, and reliable that is, as he calls it, “idiot-proof.” What car should he buy?

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The advertising industry is a cesspool of manipulation and misinformation. And now you can use it to convince your partner to let you get a dog. Or convince them to settle your divorce out of court, because they caught you using hyper-targeted internet ads to convince them to let you get a dog.

Hello, you electric angels of the Abyss, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column to help you get the BOO-ty call you’ve been waiting for on Halloween.

Need some last-minute Halloween candy, because you were either too cheap to buy any or you ate it all yourself? Here’s a hack: you actually don’t.Read more...

I’m not sure I condone this hack, but since it’s Halloween and we’ve all got costumes on the brain, let’s take a look at this DIY strategy to get out of paying extra airline bag fees.Read more...

This particular Halloween has gone on for about 10 days, which means you have probably amassed a large pile of candy, even if you don’t have any children. This candy can be eaten as is, hoarded in the freezer, or chopped up and sprinkled into pancakes. (You can also take all three courses of action, depending on the…Read more...

I am weak. I splurged on a brand-new pair of AirPods Pro and I’ve been fiddling around with them all day. Setting up these third-generation wireless earbuds isn’t that difficult, but there are a few settings you’re definitely going to want to play with if you preordered a pair yourself (or plan to pick some up later).

If your little one wants to celebrate Halloween with a seasonal video game, it’s your parental responsibility to choose something appropriate—scary enough to thrill, but not so scary it scars your child’s psyche. Most horror video games are violent and explicit (just how fans like them), and kids are soft and tender,…Read more...

Chalk helps your grip so much. Powerlifters know this, gymnasts know this, Olympic lifters know this. But if you lift at a commercial gym, you may have never gotten to know this wonderful substance; it’s pretty much never available, and often banned. Well, here’s how to bend the rules.Read more...

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Tonight you can get free candy from strangers. But you can also get some free sweets from Krispy Kreme and other chains. And it’s a big night for free kids meals—mostly regardless of whether the kids are in costume.

Here’s a fun one: There’s new Android malware making the rounds that is not only irritating—thanks, pop-up ads—but it’s also incredibly difficult to remove from your Android device once you’re infected.Read more...

The Apple Music student subscription, which grants users access to Apple’s premium music streaming service at a fraction of normal monthly price, is about to get even better.

There are many reasons to go on a rampage, ridding your home of all the plastic toy nonsense. You’re tired of stepping on hard, pointy things. You know your kids only actually play with 20% of the toys they own. You have finally run out of every inch of space.

The Pixel 4 and 4 XL’s have some of the best camera hardware available on any smartphone, but “best” doesn’t necessarily mean “perfect.” As Android Police, Reddit posters, and Google support users have reported, the Pixel 4's white balance algorithm seems to cause a strange color-correction error. A similar issue…Read more...

On Tuesday, Amazon officially eliminated all delivery fees associated with its Amazon Fresh grocery delivery program for Prime Members, a service that traditionally costs $14.99 a month; this news comes just months after Amazon’s shift to one-day shipping for its Prime customers. According to Vox, delivery fees will…Read more...

Need to get away from whatever spooky-slash-cheesy festivities are happening in your town? Get away from it all—literally, get on a plane and get out of there—with JetBlue’s “Monster Sale.” Every flight to and from destinations in the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands on Halloween is $31.

If you churn credit cards the right way, you can maximize your credit card rewards—but make one mistake, and those rewards could get clawed back.Read more...

I am not the hugest fan of food-based practical jokes. Feeding people things without their consent is not cute or funny, but pulling the ol’ bait and switch can be amusing (to you) as long as it occurs before anyone has ingested anything against their will.Read more...

The day has arrived, Taco Bell fans. It’s time for this baseball postseason’s celebration of Steal a Base, Steal a Taco. Taco Bell’s annual tradition stipulates that if a player steals a base at any point during the World Series, America gets tacos. Well, just one taco. Form an orderly line, please.Read more...

Everybody has a plan for working from home right up until the moment your kid wakes up with a runny nose and a slight fever. At that point, many parents will tell you it’s just about getting through the day. But sometimes, with the right mindset and tactics, you can have it all.Read more...

Microsoft has dropped a brand-new open-source Windows 10 PowerToy, and it’s just as fun and useful as the other two. This new addition, “PowerRename,” gives you a simple method for batch-renaming files within File Explorer. It’s free, easy, and worth the 10 seconds it takes to install on your system.Read more...

Emerson College, founded in 1880 as the Boston Conservatory of Elocution, Oratory, and Dramatic Art, is one of the country’s most prestigious liberal arts colleges. We talked to its twelfth president, Lee Pelton, about his academic background, his personal work habits, and his excellent reading recommendations.Read more...

In case you’ve missed it, it’s Evil Week over at Lifehacker HQ—a week dedicated to doing morally questionable things the right way. Yesterday, we shared strategies on how to get out of virtually anything just by using your kids as an excuse. On the phone with someone who won’t shut up? Tell them there’s an emergency…Read more...