Awesomesauce- Fab.com

As a long-time lover of the MOMA design store for their beautiful, useful gadgets, I was surprisingly hesitant to give Fab.com a chance.  Both retailers are known for their amazingly (and sometimes famously) designed products, but that is where the similarities end.

Boasting Ashton Kutcher as one of their early investors and a slogan of “Smile, you’re designed to”, Fab.com is like a lot of other flash sale sites; they feature a select group of products at discounted prices for short periods of time.  What sets it apart from a site like Gilt.com, however, is its variety of products.  While Gilt focuses on luxury and designer goods (that, honestly, I can’t afford, even when they are discounted), Fab focuses on the quirky, the modern, the simple and the useful.  Read More

What to Wear to the Kentucky Derby

Dressing for the Kentucky Derby is arguably one of the trickiest fashion endeavors of the year. For ladies on Halloween, if the packaging said ‘sexy’ and it was totally inappropriate … Read More

The Rise of the Phablet (Or, How We’re All Turning Into Kim Kardashian)

Brace yourselves, ladies and gentlemen – it’s here.

The hybrid phone/tablet combo that several different handset manufacturers have been threatening to produce has finally arrived.  Samsung released their Galaxy Mega this week, and it sports an absolutely massive 6.3-inch display.
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Can Amazon Actually Get Any Bigger?

Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer, just acquired Goodreads, the social networking site devoted to…wait for it…good reads.   No really, Goodreads is a forum for book lovers (we’re still around, you know.)  The site allows users to read and post book reviews, keep a digital bookshelf of what they’ve read or intend to read, find book clubs around town, etc.

But, what does this acquisition mean for the average book lover?  Read More

Awesomsauce- AIM

Ever wished you could just chat with someone via Skype, instead of feeling obligated to video chat?  Sick of FaceTime? Tired of texting your friends?  We’ve got the answer for you!

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Awesomesauce- TeeFury

While t-shirt websites like Threadless or Society6  are awesome for their incredible designs, fantastic selection, and amazing tees (seriously, they’re really soft) I find them lacking in a few key areas.

1. Their tee selections just aren’t nerdy enough.
2. I have to wait for a good sale to buy a tee- I can’t bring myself to spend almost 50 bucks on a hoodie or twenty bucks for a tee (OK, unless it’s an Homage tee…Homage tees are my Kryptonite.)

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Pope, or Nope?

In an increasingly connected and digitally literate world, some things remain old-school.  Which is part of the reason that ABC, NBC, CNN, the BBC, and seemingly EVERY news outlet ever was obsessed by conclave this week.  Read More

Awesomsauce- BrainPickings.org

Classified as “a human –powered discovery engine for interestingness” BrainPickings.org brings you “the things you didn’t know you were interested in- until you are.”   Maria Popova, a self-titled “interestingness hunter-gather and curious mind-at-large” curates the site full of intelligent and insightful articles.  While the content can be a bit highbrow at times (she is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow, after all,) the site provides a welcome change to the usual “10 people on Facebook you should Defriend” articles and pictures of cats that you usually find Stumbling around the internet.
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Mayer’s Sheen Wears Off

When she was first hired as Yahoo’s CEO in July of 2012, Marissa Mayer was seen as a role model for modern working women.  She was the first female engineer at Google.  While pregnant, she was hired as CEO at Yahoo and took on the huge task of overhauling and revitalizing the dying tech giant. She reportedly only took a few weeks of maternity leave, and worked through most of it.  She also had more money than most of us would know what to do with, and a pretty darn good looking spouse to boot.  Many women viewed her as the anti-Anne-Marie Slaughter; the rare woman who was able to manage a new baby, a home life, and an amazingly demanding and rewarding  job.  Read More

Awesomesauce- Uncommon Goods

If you’ve never heard of Uncommon Goods, you’ve been missing out.  The sustainable and eco-friendly purveyor of awesome stuff has been around since 1999 (that’s the same year this song was released, for some perspective.)  They feature awesome handmade, specialty, and sustainable gifts for almost anyone you can imagine. Read More

The Year of Beyoncé

We’re calling it now- 2013 will be the year of Beyoncé.

After the lip syncing/inauguration “scandal” that turned into awesomeness times a million (seriously, who else has the chutzpah to invite a bunch of reporters into one room and prove that you have the skills to sing the national anthem live?!?) and owning it at the Super Bowl halftime Show, Bey had a pretty great start to 2013.  If you thought she was going to slink back under the radar for a bit, you were wrong.  Thanks to the awesomeness that is the internet, we’ll all be rehashing her halftime performance for just a bit longer. Read More

PorchDrinking Super Bowl Roundup

All week we’ve had your complete Super Bowl coverage, featuring game previews, recipes, bingo boards, and do’s and don’ts for the game. Here’s a complete Super Bowl round up of our entire week of coverage just in case you missed anything from earlier. Enjoy tonight’s game, go (insert team you’re rooting for), have an awesome Sunday Funday and be safe out there.

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Super Bowl Recipes Pinterest Board

Still trying to figure out what to bring to impress all of your friends for the Super Bowl party? We’ve put together a handy Super Bowl Recipes Pinterest board chock full of amazing treats to help you prep for the big game. So don’t show up at your friends’ house with a box of Doritos Locos Tacos or a half eaten pizza… well, do show up with a box of half eaten pizza, that’s actually pretty funny. But if you really wanna knock it out of the stadium create something gourmet. Oh, and be sure to follow us on Pinterest.

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Call The Locksmith!

If you ever want to unlock your smartphone, you have mere hours left to do it. Effective today—Saturday, January 26, unlocking your smartphone in the US will be illegal. Read More

What Happened the Last Week of 2012?

Awesomesauce- BadLipReading

Move over Gossip Girl, there’s a new queen bee in town.

While Gossip Girl can be cutting, BadLipReading never fails to elicit a laugh.  The YouTube account’s owner has released a series of videos that embarrass politicians, musicians, and the occasional movie star in equal measure.  The anonymous creator takes video clips from the internet, television, and movies and overdubs the dialogue or lyrics to comic effect. Read More

Terms of Servicepocalypse- Instagram Edition

A week ago, we took a closer look at Facebook’s proposed changes to their terms of service.  This week we’ll examine a similar story- Facebook is now ruining Instagram too! Read More

How To Prepare For The Apocalypse

HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE APOCALYPSE

In case you hadn’t heard, there are a few people out there who really and truly believe that we’re all going to die on Friday, December 21^st. And a lot more people who don’t truly believe it but ironically prepare for the end of the world, foretold by the ending of the Mayan calendar.

Maybe you’re preparing for the impending apocalypse, or maybe you just think it’s funny to joke about the end of days. In either case, it’s useful to know how to prepare for what will happen when the world falls apart. Here’s your guide to how to get through the apocalypse. Good luck! If I see you in the fallout, let’s get a beer.

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Vote 2012

Are you voting in 2012?

Not *that* vote…you’re just a bit late for that one…

You know that paragraph all your friends have been copying and pasting on their walls, stating that they retain all their rights to the content they put on Facebook, etc, etc, blah, blah, blah?  Facebook has proposed several site changes that sparked that flurry of idiocy and they’re letting the users vote on the changes. Read More

Awesomesauce- CharityNavigator.org

The beginning of December usually means one of several things to most people:

1. Yes!  Great Lakes Christmas Ale season is here again!  (oops, is that just us…?)

2. Crap, now I have to think about what Great Aunt Edna wants for Christmas.

3. Ermahgerd! Menorahs! Eggnog!  Mistletoe!

4. Wow, I should squeeze that charity donation in before the end of the year…

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