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Compared to Europeans and European TV, Americans always lean to the conservative side. Often, our sensibilities are downright stodgy. Check out these two fabulous Schick women’s razor commercials, first the American version, then the European version.

This is a new one for me—a fish-share.
The Yankee Fisherman’s Coop of Seabrook, NH will sell locally caught fish to local retail establishments and to any customer interested in weekly shares of shrimp and lobster.
At this time, it looks like they only have shellfish packages for landlubbers like us or 20 pound packages of a [...]

Have you ever been to the store to purchase a couple items only to walk out with a receipt that’s actually longer than the itemized one you get at the super market? Sadly, it’s a trend that’s becoming all too common these day.
Ironically, these are often given to me by stores that purport to be [...]

Nestled behind the brick building at 36 Main Street in Amesbury is an artisan chocolate shop called Ovedia that is sure to soon be known as Amesbury’s sweet spot.
I discovered the place a week before Valentine’s day in 2007 in a frantic search for sea salt caramels (One of my wife’s favorites) and I didn’t [...]

One of my college buddies, John Graham, has started an online travel website called Grahamgetaways.com. The website is a Referring Travel Agent site for YTB Travel Network, but operates just like other Internet travel sites such as Expedia or Travelocity.
However, if you peruse Grahamgetaways.com, you’ll find that many of the prices are better than the [...]

I think every American, from Baby Boomers to Gen Y will remember playing with LEGO bricks. I know parents loved them as well—one of the few toys that their children could sit quietly with, while stimulating their fertile imaginations. Well, the official timeline on Gizmodo.com shows that they’re 50 years old today. Here’s to 50 [...]

In an attempt to get rid of a lot of old and useless junk around the house, we held a yard sale this past Saturday. We did our best to unload our old full-size wooden bed, an Epson computer printer, a golf bag, and a fairly decent amount of miscellaneous home furnishings/decorative accessories, sports equipment, [...]

For many, Firefly is the cult show that just won’t die. For fans like us, thank goodness! For those who follow the Joss Whedon universe, particularly fans of his TV show Firefly and the subsequent movie Serenity, the fun continues with officially licensed Serenity U.S. postage stamps.

Creation Entertainment is now selling sets of 40 stamps [...]

Please say our worst fears are not true. Please say we’re not going to going to have to pay full price for the iPhone and get saddled with a 2-year contract from an average cell phone company.

According to SciFi Tech columnist Adam Frucci, Apple had the chance to revolutionize the cell phone industry, but instead [...]

It’s been unusually warm this winter. From a global perspective it’s not out of the ordinary because earthly weather patterns are in an el Niño cycle. It being a nice day, we thought we’d head up to L.L. Bean on Saturday and air ourselves out a bit while enjoying some shopping without huge mobs of [...]