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When Was The Last Time You Really Unplugged?

I hear a lot of people talking about how nice it is to go on holiday and "just unplug for awhile." They say that taking a break from their devices helps them refocus. Which makes sense! Except I already know what a great time they had on their holidays because they posted a steady stream of photos throughout, or texted me after they went to surfing lessons/wine tasting. Read More >>

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How To Detox After a Day of Christmas Excess

In a move that surprised no one, you totally overdid this holiday period. You had to have thirds on ham. You took down a gallon of spiked eggnog. You were feeling festive, but now you feel like crap. Read More >>

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The Scientific Formula for Perfect Eggnog

Have you ever felt like making boozy eggnog is a total crapshoot? Half the time you get a smooth and delicious cocktail, and half the time it's a lumpy, curdled mess. What gives? Read More >>

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How Much of Your Holiday Shopping Did You Do Online?

We live in a cyberland future where malls exist inside your computer and the presents you buy are magically delivered to you by, well, delivery men. With each Christmas that passes, online shopping becomes more and more the norm until eventually brick and mortar stores will be nothing but vacant museums of an age gone by. Read More >>

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How To Take Holiday Photos That Don’t Suck

Holiday family gatherings are the ripest events of year for photo-documentation. Rather than leaving the task to Aunt Edna, take those reins yourself. You can capture the finest damn pictures this family has ever seen! Read More >>

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How To Sound Smart at Your Holiday Party

It's party season. You're probably even attending some kind of shindig tonight. There will be free alcohol and all the mini-sausages you can eat. Read More >>

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How To Dominate Your Ugly Xmas Sweater Party (With Technology)

Holiday parties are fun, full of boozy eggnog and good cheer, but there's too much ugly sweater one-upsmanship. The winner is inevitably whoever found the ugliest old thing at the Salvation Army. Nuts to that. Blow everyone's mind with this high-tech solution. Read More >>

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So Where the Hell Do I Get Cool Christmas Decorations?

Christmas decorations are so tacky. And not wonderfully tacky. Terrible. I hate them. There must be a place to get better ones. Or do I have to make them myself? Whatever, I'm open to anything. Help! Read More >>

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How To Increase Your Drinking Tolerance (So You Don’t Make an Ass of Yourself at a Holiday Party)

So, you've got your fancy pants on. You're heading to the holiday party, and you're intent on impressing your bosses, in-laws, or significant other's friends with your worldliness and savoir-faire. Then you get too drunk, break stuff, offend people, get fired and/or dumped, and effectively ruin your life. Read More >>

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Here’s Amazon’s Final Damage Report for the 2011 Holiday Season

Chances are the holidays have driven you mostly insane by now, so Amazon's gone ahead and packaged its Christmas shopping postmortem (they sold lots of Kindles!) with some goofy facts that will appeal to the infantile mush that was once your brain. Here are some of the more charming/pertinent bits: Read More >>

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I Don’t Want to Live In a Future Where Drumbots and Scanners Play Christmas Carols

Like the ghost of Christmas future, YouTuber bd594 has given us a chilling glimpse of what the future of the holidays might be like. Door-to-door carollers replaced with a robotic snare drum and a flatbed scanner playing Little Drummer Boy. Read More >>

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What To Do With Your Unwanted Christmas Crap

It's Christmas morning. You're all excited as you pillage through layer upon layer of gilded paper and bows, and there it is! A 7-inch Acer Iconica Tab A100! Just what you've not been dying for! Uh. Thanks? Read More >>

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This Wonderful Time Lapse Walk Captures New York’s Holiday Feeling Perfectly

Walking through the New York wonderland during the holidays can be a pretty magical experience. This video, made by Cris Magliozzi, captures that feeling perfectly. It's a very special time lapse, made while he was walking from Central Park to Rockefeller Center. Read More >>

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This Magical Time Lapse of Los Angeles Inside a Snow Globe Makes Me Miss Home

Hi Britons. You might think Los Angeles is filled with American Starbucks sippin' celeb wannabes who are fake, plastic and vapid. Whatever. I think of Los Angeles as home. And since I'm not going home for the holidays, this time-lapse video is the closest I'll get to a lovely Southern California "winter". Read More >>

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Quickly Kid-Proof Your House for Christmas

If you don't have kids, there are probably knives, prescriptions drugs, poison, and electronics lying everywhere. But now the family is coming to visit with something that could destroy everything you love: Children. Read More >>