The real trick is to do both: Cook it for half the microwave time in the microwave, and then bake it for half the baking time. It still gets nice and crispy, and cuts the wait time in half.

From talking to my friends, I’ve gotta say the reason so few of my generation are getting married is because our parents’ generation fucked up marriage so bad that half of us think it’ll jinx our relationships. If anything, the same-sex marriage movement helped renew support for marriage as an institution, since it’s…

For dexterity: A lot of people don’t realize it, but the ability to consciously control how your body is positioned and how it moves is a learned skill, and you can improve it a lot if you work on it. (It also makes you more attractive!) Good activities for this are dancing, martial arts, yoga, and gymnastics.

Why are the direwolves giant but the moose is tiny? A direwolf was only slightly bigger than a normal wolf, and a moose should be much bigger than a horse.

The thing is, the Pope’s not allowed to have sex either. He has to remain celibate his whole life too, as do most of the people he spends time with. It’s probably not such a crazy idea to him.

Charity fraud is a real thing, though - if I ask you to make a donation to a cause and then just spend the money on myself, that’s illegal. I agree that Kickstarter supporters shouldn’t expect concrete results from their money, but it’s still reasonable to expect that that money be spent working on that project.

Ghirardelli chips are great. Plus their brownie mix is excellent. They seem like the kind of brand that takes baking seriously, and would have actually put in effort to find the right formula for good chocolate chip cookies, rather than just selling their normal chocolate in chip form.

A few tips from my own experience:

I use a 5 year old 3Gs that’s still basically good as new, despite being dropped more times than I can count. I left it on iOS 5, because at this point any upgrade is only going to make things worse. I’ve had a few apps stop supporting the OS, but the major ones work fine. Plus I never had to deal with the SSL bug or…

Some places really do have secret menus, official or unofficial. When I worked at Jamba Juice back almost a decade ago, we had a sheet of paper with some handwritten recipes that we taught to new employees. The most popular were the “white gummy bear” and “red gummy bear” ones that were made by mixing together all the…

You can only fight in the UFC at 135 lb and under? That seems crazy to me - tons of women can’t make that weight while still having enough muscle to be at top form in a fight.

See, “keep right unless passing” makes sense for long stretches of highway in the middle of nowhere. In dense urban areas where people are constantly entering and exiting the highway, “through traffic keeps left” is a lot more efficient. If the left lane is too slow, switch to the middle lane. If they’re both too…

I get why it makes sense to try and fix locations - Montreal has a huge population of French immigrants. You can sell a lot more tickets if you arrange it so France is always playing in Montreal. But it’s not any more ethical than fixing matches to sell tickets.

If you’re using a good quality loose leaf tea (where the leaves are still whole rather than broken up), that method works fine. That’s how I drink my green tea. Though of course you can’t take the leaves out to stop the brewing, so it might end up too strong if you don’t drink quickly.

If you’re using a good quality loose leaf tea (where the leaves are still whole rather than broken up), that method…

My mother did this with me starting around middle school - as long as my grades were good, she never paid attention to my homework. If my grades started slipping, she'd step in and start setting study schedules and helping out. Which of course drove me crazy! So I was very strongly motivated to get good grades. Plus…

I know this is a bit off-topic, but... there's a lot of death in this article. Two murders, three suicides, two drunken accidents, an overdose. UVA is only about twice as big as the school I went to, and no one died while I was there. In fact as far as I can tell, my school didn't have a single death from 2005 to…

Yeah, I'm thinking if that wasn't meant to be an engagement ring, he probably dodged a bullet there. Pulling out a ring on your three-year anniversary? She's not going to be thinking "How sweet! He got me a pretty ring!", she's going to think "Oh my god, he's proposing! Oh.... wait... no? It's... just a ring? Okay…

Is that just... the exact same person repeated 5 times with different color hair?

I've always thought cosplay was an interesting word. It's nice and catchy on its own, but I've always cringed when people try and define it by saying "it's short for costume play!" as if that explains anything. I mean, I can see how "costume play" sounds good to a Japanese speaker, but it has really unfortunate…

There's a reason airlines don't use WilMA - it's great if you're traveling alone, but half the people on the plane are sitting next to their friends/family, and really won't appreciate having to split up for boarding.