The shipping may be one of the less valuable perks; I often forgo it favor of credits on other services when they are offered, since as you say the packages often arrive soon enough anyway—although it’s not always just about the speed of Prime shipment, but the fact that fulfillment prior to shipping has lower…

Well, “Inspire” is a Honda nameplate that probably hasn’t become an abandoned trademark everywhere yet despite not having been used since MY 2012. And businesses now tend to like uneek spellings because they are easier to trademark worldwide. Plus, since en- is a prefix indicating within or inside, I’m sure that Suzie…

According to babycenter.com, it is the 4159th most popular girl’s name in 2018 so far, up 1850 spots from 2017. Wanna bet it will move up higher before 1/1/19?

One of the best-looking pickups since the ‘50s, but as a concept probably would have been better suited to the Ranger; smaller, sorta sporty, younger buyers, less likely to be used as a trade or farm vehicle.

If Microsoft’s dispute over whether the warrant is currently legal is obviated, then its case indeed seems over. Whether the new law is actually unconstitutional probably has to be adjudicated in a case brought by a customer directly affected by implementation of the law, since Microsoft likely has no standing to…

Some of the Firefox footage was actually recycled from 1968's Ice Station Zebra, which is worth seeing for its own sake. Semicentennial trivia: Cinerama prints of 2001: A Space Odyssey (released in April) were pulled by MGM despite continuing good box office receipts so that Cinerama-equipped venues would be available…

The “frequently bought together” GFCI Tester is also useful for determining whether your outlets are actually grounded and if they’re grounded with the correct polarity. The GFCI in my 1980s-remodeled bathroom wasn’t grounded at all nor were several other outlets where the original two-prong receptacles had been…

The “frequently bought together” GFCI Tester is also useful for determining whether your outlets are actually…

Isn’t Texas the state where the conspiracy press and Republicans in state government got all bent out of shape two years ago when the DoD conducted a major but routine exercise that was somehow transformed into a plot by the Obama administration to take over and occupy the state? Can we really trust the military just…

Because in older homes it’s frequently based on the space available for the laundry room and the desirability of minimizing the length of both the water lines run and the dryer vent run. My sister’s second-floor laundry has the dryer on the left because it’s next to an exterior wall and the washer on the right where…

The electrical grid is borderless, yet states have some regulatory authority over how utilities operate within their borders.

A hashtag that parses as “Spartan Swill” doesn’t seem the most intelligent idea.

It was particularly common for deceased children to be photographed in a “lifelike” pose with toys or other familiar objects. Infants would be posed as sleeping, or held in the arms of a parent or grandparent. This actually seems less creepy than “mourning jewelry” woven from the hair of the deceased (not infants) as…

But, their hair wasn’t covered!

Calico is a cotton fabric; when chewed it might get caught between teeth or cause problems for those with weak 19th-century teeth, but it shouldn’t be breaking anything.

Seems copied from recent Hondas. I didn’t understand why they placed the hood cut lines on the profile of the car when it just accentuates the enormous panel gaps, but it never occurred to me that it might be by intent as a “design” feature. It still doesn’t explain why the gaps on Ontario-built Civics seem a bit…

A major reason that states with usury limits raised or eliminated them was that during the excess inflation of the 1970s, especially the end of the Carter administration, interest rates based on the prime or Fed funds rates were bumping against or exceeding usury limits in a number of states (for a few months the…

So, I’ve been hallucinating watching The CW on YouTube TV for months now? It was a significant reason for choosing it over the other services.

So there is a logical reason for James Veitch’s flatmates to be concerned...

Even when you pay bills online or by automated phone systems, the “convenience” fees are sometimes a multiple of the actual transaction cost. Recently I was charged $1.50 to debit my checking account, which from my understanding is not only more than double the average ACH processing fee, but if I had mailed the same…

“Far Beyond the Stars” was set in the 1950s. The story would be less relevant in a decade where Samuel R. Delaney was routinely published at the beginning and winning back-to-back Best Novel Nebulas in ‘67-’68, and if women SF writers used ambiguous pen names it was by their own choice.