Even if you don't expect every last detail of your kitchen renovation to turn out perfectly, you probably plan on coming close, without any major mistakes. Yet remodeling goofs—like boxing in the fridge or mounting the cabinets out of ...
Buying clothes online but getting it wrong triggers a complex series of emotions that closely resemble the grief cycle, new research has found. While most unlikely to be as intense as mourning, the cycle of emotions that afflict a ...
Tags: United Kingdom, Textile, shopping online
Early Monday, a developer announced the release of the first porn app for Google Glass only to learn that Google had banned porn apps for its computerized eyeglasses. MiKandi, an adult app store, created a piece of Glassware that enables ...
Tags: Google Glass, Porn
The artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres uses a plethora of 15 watt light bulbs, porcelain light sockets, extension cords for his well traveled very popular 1992 light installation "Untitled" (America #1). This light installation borders between ...
Q. My wife just got laid off from her job, which has been supplying our health insurance for the past 15 years. I'm switching to my employer's plan but it says that pre-existing conditions won't be covered for the first 12 months. My wife ...
HTML5 is more than a few years old and no longer a curiousity. Web pages that used to simply emulate a piece of paper are now expected to do something snazzy to justify their existence. Thanks to HTML5, along with innovations in JavaScript ...
Tags: HTML5, slide apps, Zoho, Google Docs, Aviary, HootSuite, Scribd, Angry Birds
IT professionals in the UK, EU and the US agree that BI users are a deep source of exasperation. A survey commissioned by BI dashboards supplier LogiXML found an IT pro population united in grief across the Atlantic. According to the ...
Tags: BI dashboards, IT tensions, mobile BI, mobile systems
In the wake of the tragic school shooting in Newtown, Conn, police warned that they will prosecute anyone purposefully posting false information related to the incident on social networks. "Misinformation is being posted on social media ...
Tags: net pranksters, Computer Products, Cops
US space agency Nasa is to encrypt all its mobile computers after the loss of a laptop containing personal information about more than 10,000 employees and contractors. Until the encryption process is complete, staff members are forbidden ...
Tags: Nasa, mobile computer, personal information, encryption process
A Jackpot Capital Casino player had an amazing run of good luck last week, winning $107,000 over two days. She believes her nephew, who passed away just two days before her winning streak, was her good luck charm so she'll use her winnings ...
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Parks, lakes and rivers around the country will be alive with the sounds of drummers pounding out furious beats and racers vigorously urging their dragon boats across the water to celebrate the traditional Dragon Boat Festival (duanwujie). ...
Tags: Dragon Boat Festival, one of the country's oldest festivals
Caring for Parents Marriage in the Chinese culture signifies who will care for elderly parents when the need arises. Daughters marry "out of the family" and become part of their husband's family, while sons remain within the original ...
Tags: roles, caring for parents, head of household, family name, filial piety
The funeral dance is a unique custom for Tujia people living in the western part of Hubei Province. Through the happy folk dance, prayers for a happy life to the deceased are expressed. When an elder of Tujia ethnic minority dies, he ...
Tags: funeral dance, folk dance, Tujia ethnic minority, unique custom
There are mainly three kinds of etiquettes in China. The first category is the daily life etiquette: including meeting etiquette, introduction etiquette, conversation etiquette, banquet etiquette, reception etiquette, dance ...
Yunnan used to be an isolated frontier region in China. Yet, 25 ethnic minority groups reside there. Meanwhile, Yunnan boasts of different climatic zones. The great differences in folk customs and climatic diverse in Yunnan always made ...