Новости за 26.11.2018

The year is crawling to a close, which means it’s time for year-end lists and New Year’s resolutions. Maybe you’re going old school and waiting until Jan. 1 to get a jump start on your dreams. Or, maybe you’re taking Aimée’s advice and working on a new goal in the last few weeks of the year.

For Thanksgiving this year, my entire extended family traveled to Disney World. Six adults and four kids trekking our way first across several states to get there, and then across four different parks over the span of a week.

Thanksgiving is over, so you can forget about feeling gratitude for life’s bounty for another year. Or you can keep working that muscle; with practice, you can be happier and more grateful for your life.

I am particular about my mashed potatoes. I like a mix of russets and Yukon Golds, but I rice the Yukons. (I don’t like the texture of riced russets.) This necessitates keeping the spuds separate during cooking, because they’re hard to tell apart once peeled and cooked. Rather than break out two different stock pots,…

My daughter was a crier. From the second she emerged from my body and until she turned about six months old, she cried on a regular basis. (You may be thinking, “All babies cry!” And that’s true, but my second child cried maybe a quarter of the amount my daughter did. So there.) She cried because she was hungry. She…

We’ve been spending a lot of time lately wrestling with what Facebook has been doing with our information from our personal lives—but Facebook isn’t the only place where you’re sharing a lot of information about yourself. LinkedIn, everyone’s favorite professional-networking service, gets a ton of data from you about…

Putting together a bodyweight workout routine is easy: just do some pushups, and some squats, and some...uh...other stuff. To get a balanced workout, you have to know which exercises target which muscles. Which is why we love this bodyweight exercise chart from Darebee.

It might be the most “Monday” (Mondayiest?) Monday of the year. After a long, turkey-fueled holiday weekend, you now find yourself back at work, dreaming of your pajamas and a bowl of mashed potatoes, rather than your Black Friday-discounted suit and stale coffee.

NASA is landing a spacecraft on Mars today, and you can actually watch it happen in real time.

I will not, for love or money, be watching Bumping Mics with Jeff Ross & Dave Attel, but I’m aware that these are two “comedian’s comedians” and there are a lot of people who do not find them tedious and self-indulgent. So, feel free to watch these two dudes “roast each other, the audience, and special guests”…

I started my writing career off over a decade ago at a site called DownloadSquad. We covered “Web 2.0” companies back when “Web 2.0 companies” was a term people used. I wrote a zillion posts for them, or at least a few thousand. The amount of those articles that are still online: zero.

This week Amazon started rolling out Skype support for Amazon Echo devices. With the feature, you can both make and receive Skype voice calls using something like an Echo Dot and make video calls using Amazon’s Echo Show.