Often, TV shows use stock background photos or stock videos to set the scene.  Sometimes, this causes interesting anomalies. For example, the exterior of a plane could be a 747, but the interior is a DC-10. Why? I was watching How I Met Your Mother when something caught my eye. …

Drugstore.com has been a source of great deals.  It usually sells household items for less than Amazon.com, and was a good use of the free Shoprunner benefit that comes with the American Express Platinum  Card.  (It was recently tightened up, but used to be free 2-day shipping on any purchase). I …

Nothing makes me feel younger than the ability to jetset to a beach somewhere (or Las Vegas!) to chill out. That’s why I was surprised when I saw this article about how frequent travel ages us. From Fast Company: In Cohen’s review of the literature, he found that this mobile …

Starbucks has a deal right now where you can get a $10 eGift when you load $10 or more in the Starbucks app using Visa Checkout. While I usually purchase my Starbucks gift cards in stores where I can get a points bonus on my credit card, you can’t beat the …

There’s another sample box up on Amazon–this time for dog treats. Amazon has been doing this thing where they offer a sample box for $10-$15.  Each sample box comes with credit towards buying things from that specific box (or towards the types of items in that box). Some boxes have …

Edit:  Gah, sorry, this turned out to be an offer for new accounts only.  But check out the comments for discussion on what to do about that. Right now, you can get a programmable slow cooker at Walmart and get 100% cashback to your Paypal account from TopCashBack.com. Walmart charges ~$6 …

Edit:  This item is now unavailable.  Sometimes Amazon has brought them back after a few days, but no idea if that will happen here.  Thanks, Richard! Amazon has another sample box for sale.  Amazon has been doing this thing where they offer a sample box for $10-$15.  Each sample box …

In 2012, there was a data breach into Dropbox’s files.  The data breach occurred because one employee didn’t vary his passwords and also used his corporate password for his LinkedIn profile–which experienced a data breach. After four years (for some reason), those 68,000,000 emails and passwords were released onto the …

After that sale on Civ III, I’ve been in a throw-back video game mood.  (In fact, I was playing Duck Tales last night). Today, I was surprised to see Humble Bundle offering a selection of Sierra/Roberta Williams games for $1. This set includes the first game to ever terrify me, …

A United Houston to Heathrow flight experienced so much turbulence going over the Atlantic, it had to make an emergency landing in Ireland.  About a dozen passengers and crew members were injured. From ABC13: The aircraft was about 300 miles from London when it diverted to Shannon Airport in Ireland …