Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program is a marketplace for labor that requires a human touch. The available jobs (Human Intelligence Tasks, or HITs) range from surveys to data entry to recording your facial expressions via webcam. These jobs don’t pay much …
Miss Addams isn’t the only spooky Wednesday this year.
Most areas will do trick or treating the weekend before Halloween. But if yours doesn’t, or if you have to work on the day your kids go out, you’re going to …
I’ve had a difficult time getting into the Halloween spirit this year. Neither of the neighbors who usually go all out have put up a single thing. Maybe they’ve been waiting on the hurricane that, fingers crossed, will skip us …
The spooky season is here, and the appmakers are raining down games, photo editors, and ringtones upon us! All apps were used on an Android phone.
Little Tailor: Halloween Clothes Maker
I award this app no stars. I want to …
I’ve always been name-obsessed. I’ve kept notebooks of new-to-me names, striving to learn as much as I could about their history, etymology, and pronunciation. Naming my daughter was a fairly simple process, but what if I had decided to honor …
One hazy autumn afternoon, I sat in a fifth grade classroom and breathlessly opened my Scholastic order. It contained a slim volume about the meaning of names. I was somewhat disappointed by the pedestrian nature of my own name’s definition …
I took the lazy way out today. I Buzzfed, if you will. Here are the Halloween tweets that had be laughing all week:
Who are some of your favorite funny people, readers?
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Merry October! Let’s pick up some PSLs and head to the farm stand for fresh, in-season produce.
What do we find?
Apples
Apples are available year-round in North America because of cold storage, meaning the …