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Few things in this world will reaffirm your holiday spirit faster than watching a dozen or so uniformed service people cover a room in Christmas wrapping. Also on that short list, it so happens, is spotting one of the aforementioned troops hand-feed an overzealous and noticeably plump squirrel who’s anxiously scratching on the door to Continue Reading →

All joking aside. It isn’t easy, but I’ll try. Technology doesn’t always represent progress. It just thinks it does. Gadgets inspire an astounding degree of self-indulgence. They make you believe you have 5,000 friends, when you’re lucky to have 5. They let you swear at the president and the pope, without them knowing who you are. Continue Reading →

“C’mon, guys … it’s a nasal microvascular thing!” We’re all familiar with the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: an outcast, ridiculed for his glowing nose, chosen by Santa himself to guide the iconic sleigh across the world and deliver presents to millions of children. It’s an uplifting, Christmas-time staple. But why was Rudolph’s nose Continue Reading →

Would you take a shower in a public fountain? What if your friends would donate $50 if you did it? A just-hatched startup called Moolta wants you to challenge your friends to do wildly crazy things, record their antics and post them to their platform. What’s in it for the dare accepters? The dare is Continue Reading →

Instagram messed up big time last week when it freaked everyone out with changes to its privacy policy related to licensing user photos for advertisements. After days of backlash, Instagram reverted back to its old terms of service. While the damage has already been done, Instagram is hoping a new update to its iOS and Continue Reading →

The holiday season approaches, and it is time to whip out your wallet and spend your year’s savings on the people in your life who grudgingly tolerate you so long as you keep them plied with new toys. This year, we’ve funded a heap of projects on sites like Kickstarter, and we’ve seen somewhat fewer Continue Reading →

It was probably too much to ask that we make it to the end of the year without firing up the new [new (new)] iPad rumor mill, especially given that it’s barely been two months since the iPad 4 appeared. And yet! There is, says Macotakara—a site that’s usually pretty good at this sort of Continue Reading →

[powerpress url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/121224_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″] It’s Christmas Eve, which means many of us are scrambling for last-minute holiday gift ideas for our family and friends. If you’re stuck in this position, you’re either a major procrastinator or stuck on one last person. If you’re like me, a lot of your friends are heavy into technology, but already seem Continue Reading →

Let’s look back at Alec Baldwin playing apologetic American Airlines Capt. Steve Rogers on Saturday Night Live one week after getting kicked off an American Airlines flight for refusing to stop playing Words With Friends: Seth Myers: “But, Capt. Rogers, don’t phones interfere with the plane’s communication system?” Baldwin chuckles in a Southern accent: “Oh, Continue Reading →

Facebook on Friday released a Snapchat-like app called Poke, which allows users to send private messages that expire after 1, 3, 5 or 10 seconds. Less than 24 hours later, it is already the number one most downloaded app on Apple’s marketplace, less than 24 hours after it became available. While we don’t necessarily expect Continue Reading →