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Flowchart: Should You Come Clean?

Today is To Tell the Truth Day, so we’ve created a handy flowchart to help you determine whether you need to bother commencing with the truth serum. Keep reading »

8 Movies From The ’80s You Need For Your Summer Movie Fest

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Now that we’re firmly into July, you may have burned through some of your summer fun goodwill. Why not take a movie breather, then? Our favorite genre happens to be ’80s teen flicks, and so we’ve decided to give you a must-see list of some of our favorites. While some of the standard ’80s flicks aren’t on here, we’ve given you a few lesser known ones to try out (like “Valley Girl,” pictured above). Let us know what you think, and tell us what you think this list is missing!

Be My Boyfriend: Guy Who Discovered How To Inject McNuggets With Dipping Sauce

Dear Guy Who Invented Injecting Chicken McNuggets With Dipping Sauce: You are pretty smart. You also love snack foods. And you used your ingenuity — and a syringe that you strangely had hanging around your desk — to improve upon a rather flawless snackfood to create a truly incredible innovation: Chicken McNuggets infused with dipping sauce. Let’s date. [Serious Eats] Keep reading »

Adele Fans Rule At Online Dating

Adele fan? That’s good news for your online dating game. The most successful online daters happen to be fans of Adele, at least according to a new online dating site called Tastebuds.fm, which matches potential dates with similar music tastes. Also successful: male fans that like Arcade Fire, Kings of Leon and the Arctic Monkeys. The least popular male daters? No surprise here: Metallica, Linkin Park and Eminem fans. [Tastebuds.fm] Keep reading »

Shopping Guide: 10 Cute Summer Cocktail Dresses

Shopping Guide: 10 Cute Summer Cocktail Dresses
It’s officially summer. You’ve sweated through everything in your closet by now and you need a new cute dress to get you through the next few weeks of summer shindigs. Treat yourself to a colorful frock that’ll get you noticed. Check out our faves!

Quiz: Do You Recognize That Celebrity Butt?

Quiz: Guess That Celeb Booty!
Butts are beautiful. Butts are great. The butts of famous people are sometimes big, sometimes small, sometimes luscious and lovely. But how well do you know your celebrity behinds? We’ve assembled a selection of world class famous lady backsides for your examination. Test your knowledge by taking our quiz!

The 10 Dumbest Beauty Products

The 10 Dumbest Beauty Products
Marketing geniuses are always coming up with new ways to sell ladies stupid products they don’t need. And when it comes to preying on our vanity, beauty companies will seemingly stop at nothing to try and get us spend money on dumb potions, lotions and devices. After the jump, we uncover the 10 dumbest beauty products we’ve ever seen.

A Burst Of Sun From Balmain

We couldn’t resist posting this vision from Balmain’s Resort 2012 collection, a complex embroidered confection with which we absolutely fell in love. It’s sort of reminiscent of the Aztec calender tonalpohualli, no? Keep reading »

PSA: Don’t, Like, Ride Your Bike Drunk, Okay?


In all seriousness, drunk cycling is actually very dangerous and you shouldn’t do it, and it’s actually considered a DUI. HOWEVER, this faux public service announcement from the cast of “Hipster Shore” reminds us that drunk hipsters are still very ridiculous and funny and “you should never ride a unicycle, even when you’re sober, cause it’s, like, hard.” Good point, adorable hipster guy. Good point. Keep reading »

Vogue Editor Doesn’t Like it When Men Dress Up

“I dislike men in fashion. I don’t like it when a man dresses as a fashionista. I don’t think it’s attractive at all. Women in fashion, on the other hand, are very attractive. Women can always make you dream.”

Vogue Italia editor Franca Sozzani, expressing yet another one of her controversial opinions on all things fashion. That’s okay Franca, you can send them all on to me. [