A Simple Flowchart to Work Out If You Should Take a Selfie

A Simple Flowchart to Work Out If You Should Take a Selfie

If you sometimes find it hard to read social situations and establish if it’s an appropriate time to be taking photographs of yourself with your phone, here’s a simple flowchart to make the decision making process a little easier. [Doghouse Diaries]

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You’re Using the Semicolon All Wrong

You're Using the Semicolon All Wrong

Wait, you use the semicolon for sentence construction? Are you for real? Surely, nobody really knows how to use that thing properly anymore. It’s probably for the best that it’s only ever used to form winky emoticons these days. [Doghouse Diaries]

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What Your Email Signature Says About You

What Your Email Signature Says About You

What you type in your email says a lot about the kind of person you are—but what you add at the bottom of every message can be just as revealing. Your email signature can speak volumes about your personality.

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The Relative Screen Resolutions of Your Favorite Devices in One Chart

The Relative Screen Resolutions of Your Favorite Devices in One Chart

The display on your phone is relatively tiny. But in pixels, it’s friggin’ huge. That’s the beauty of high resolution. So how would that phone screen compare to your TV, or your tablet or your laptop if it was spread out to a similarly-sized screen? Doghouse Diaries made this graphic to show you, and it’s kind of nuts.

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More Popular Idioms Translated to Make Sense with Today’s Technology

More Popular Idioms Translated to Make Sense with Today's Technology

When’s the last time you put all your eggs in one basket? Probably never. But! When’s the last time you put all your data in one hard drive? Probably right now (you gotta learn better backup habits). And though we know that practice makes perfect and that patience is a virtue, what actually applies to real life is that Photoshop makes perfect and waiting for a page to load is a virtue.

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Popular Idioms Translated to Actually Make Sense Today

Popular Idioms Translated to Actually Make Sense Today

When we tell the future children of the world that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, they’ll stare at their iPad and wonder what the hell a book is. Does that old fart mean an app? When we tell them to scratch our back and we’ll scratch theirs, they’ll wonder why are we even talking to each other in IRL. And when we say close, but no cigar… well, actually even I have no idea why that ever made sense.

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Finally, Honest Hand Dryer Instructions

It’s always felt like something’s missing from your local public bathroom’s hand dryer tutorial. Something simple, yet crucial. Something like, say, this missing third step that Doghouse Diaries has so smartly proposed. More »

How Your Microwave Actually Works

Whatever energy you spend fussing with your microwave, testing out different power levels and durations, is wasted. It’s about time you knew that. Because despite all your efforts, your food can only come out one of two ways: ice-cold, or mouth-singeing. More »

What Was Life Like Before iPhones?

Our children won’t know what life was like before smartphones took over our every waking hour. But when you inevitably try to gather them around to tell them about all the time we spent not staring at screens? Well, as Doghouse Diaries points out, good luck with that: More »

Why the Internet Is More Curse Than Blessing [Humor]

Any list that weighs the pros and cons of the internet can only end one way: the realization that you’re wasting your life… right… now. Although to be honest, there’s way more in the plus column here than I ever would have imagined possible. More »