The White House may be beautifully decked for the holidays, but it's left to the First Dog to decide whether the decor is up to sniff. The White House released a highly produced (and highly adorable) videoof Bo, the First Family's Portuguese water dog, quietly meandering the adorned rooms of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to the tune of Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the… Read More >>

Fact: We waste a lot of food in the United States—Americans throw away nearly half of what they buy! So in an attempt to try to waste less, photographer Joe Buglewicz decided to take photos of rotting food as a reminder. "But over time I started reading more about food waste in the U.S., and the numbers kind of floored me," Buglewicz told Fast Company's Co.Exist blog. The idea evolved… Read More >>

In our household, my wife’s job is to cook, clean, take care of our daughter, do the books, pull in the money, kiss my boo-boos, chop down trees, fend off pirates, and chase the neighbor’s kids off our lawn. My job is to kill the spiders. I do it because Jennifer would rather watch a five-part series on Clay Matthews tackling quarterbacks on ESPN… Read More >>

You grow up living with your parents, but what if, when they get older and need care, they end up living with you? A Virginia-based company, N2Care, created the MedCottage (nicknamed "granny pod") for just that scenario. MedCottageis a mobile medical home that can be placed on a caregiver's property to make looking out for elders easier and homier. For families… Read More >>

Here's one New York City police officer who just smashed the stereotype of the big city as cold and uncaring. When officer Larry DePrimo, 25,  saw a homeless man walking in Times Square with no shoes,  he ran ahead of the man into a shoe store where he bought boots, then into a second store, where he purchased socks. The cop then circled back to the… Read More >>

I'm not a craft beer connoisseur or brew junkie by any means, but while searching for ways to make hosting a holiday party a little easier this year, I came across this sleek looking beauty: The Krups B100 BeerTender. With the holiday season going full throttle now, why not stand out among the endless sea of mulled wine and eggnog offerings? The BeerTender allows you to… Read More >>

New York's Museum of Modern Art—better known as MoMA—announced Thursday that 14 video games will soon be added to its collection, with another 26 planned for later. Among them is the arcade classic Pac-Man, which should please old school pixel junkies. But there are also some more, shall we say, avant-garde titles: The cult rhythm game Vib-Ribbon, for instance, or Katamari Damacy, wherein players roll cows… Read More >>

Who doesn't love George Washington? Nobody, that's who. And who doesn't love "Washington Crossing the Delaware," the famous painting that captures a pivotal moment in the Revolutionary War? Plenty of folks, apparently. And this disliking of Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze's 1851 masterpiece has apparently been going on for a long time. I happen to love the… Read More >>

While most of us were busy gnawing the last of the turkey bones or strategizing the endless Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday sales, a few intrepid souls were out there posting videos of over-the-top holiday decor. Forget Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, and even Vixen; here's a house that dances to Angry Birds. (If you're still adding to your "thankful" list from Thanksgiving, you… Read More >>

I've never been one for online shopping. I prefer tactile gift-buying, going through rows of trinkets with my hands or flipping through the pages of a book before I decide to toss it onto the conveyer belt and checkout. A new website called Wantful, however, has me singing a different tune. Visit the online gift guru and fill out a brief questionnaire about the… Read More >>