Over the holidays, my son learned to crawl across the floor. The first thing on his agenda? Motoring across the carpet to get a closer look at the blinking lights of my dad's stereo receiver.

Watching a movie for exactly the second time ever, when you haven't seen it since you were a young kid, is a pretty amazing experience. I streamed Scrooged the other night. I hadn't seen it since shortly after its 1988 release, when I was about six or seven. Total flashback. The terrifying ghouls under the cloak of…

Let's get one thing straight right away: "White Christmas" is the best Christmas song. It has tradition, nostalgia, and romance. No church. There are more versions of it that you could ever care to hear—Bing Crosby's original 1941 performance is a classic, Frank Sinatra's 1944 version is good enough, and the Drifters'…

Did you get a bunch of new gear today? Got some questions about how to use it?

Did you get a bunch of new gear today? Got some questions about how to use it?

Did you get a bunch of new gear today? Got some questions about how to use it?

I don't use many gadgets every single day. Smartphone, sure. TV? Nope. But these little battery-operated Sony radios—I have two of them—receive local airwaves every morning, every night, and for almost 48 hours straight on weekends.

You don't need a shed full of hardware to get things done around the house. Even if your weekend workload looks like a real life episode of This Old House, you probably rely on a fairly small core set of tools. Here are a few items suited for both ends of the spectrum—whether you can build a back deck or barely…

Google is so convinced you don't want to see porn that it started filtering its own search results. Bullshit. Everybody wants porn, and nobody wants to admit it. Except me, of course, I don't look at that smut. But for the rest of you: It's time to fess up.

An interview with our Xmas day tech support, now using a non-burner account. This is a test for our Xmas day Q&A hosted by Karan. (I need to write more that one hundred forty characters so the system recognizes this as a full post.)

An interview with our Xmas day tech support. This is a test for our Xmas day Q&A hosted by Karan. (I need to write more that one hundred forty characters so the system recognizes this as a full post.)

When your iPhone comes preloaded with multiple types of maps, you might wonder why you'd ever need a dedicated navigation app. Yet there they are in the App Store, at astronomical prices, like a digital clone of the GPS unit your dad had suction-cupped to his windshield.